Health insurance /
Morrisey, Michael A.
Health insurance / Michael A. Morrisey. - Chicago, Ill. : Washington, DC : Health Administration Press ; AUPHA Press, c2008. - xviii, 409 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-391) and indexes.
History of health insurance -- A summary of insurance coverage -- The demand for health insurance -- Adverse selection -- Underwriting and rate making -- Risk adjustment -- Moral hazard and prices -- Moral hazard and utilization management -- Selective contracting and hospitals -- Selective contracting and physicians -- Managed care backlash, provider consolidation, monopsony power, and most favor nation clauses -- Premium sensitivity for health insurance -- Compensating differentials -- Taxes and employer-sponsored health insurance -- Employers and agents -- Health savings accounts and consumer driven health plans -- The small group market -- Regulation in the insurance market -- The individual market -- State high-risk pools -- Medicare -- Retiree coverage -- Medicaid, crowd-out, and long term care insurance.
9781567932829 (alk. paper) 1567932827 (alk. paper)
2007021732
101307716 DNLM
Health insurance--United States.
Insurance, Health--economics--United States.
HG9396 / .M6686 2008
368.38/200973
Health insurance / Michael A. Morrisey. - Chicago, Ill. : Washington, DC : Health Administration Press ; AUPHA Press, c2008. - xviii, 409 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-391) and indexes.
History of health insurance -- A summary of insurance coverage -- The demand for health insurance -- Adverse selection -- Underwriting and rate making -- Risk adjustment -- Moral hazard and prices -- Moral hazard and utilization management -- Selective contracting and hospitals -- Selective contracting and physicians -- Managed care backlash, provider consolidation, monopsony power, and most favor nation clauses -- Premium sensitivity for health insurance -- Compensating differentials -- Taxes and employer-sponsored health insurance -- Employers and agents -- Health savings accounts and consumer driven health plans -- The small group market -- Regulation in the insurance market -- The individual market -- State high-risk pools -- Medicare -- Retiree coverage -- Medicaid, crowd-out, and long term care insurance.
9781567932829 (alk. paper) 1567932827 (alk. paper)
2007021732
101307716 DNLM
Health insurance--United States.
Insurance, Health--economics--United States.
HG9396 / .M6686 2008
368.38/200973