Health Insurance
Product DescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive view of health insurance in the United States, with emphasis on private insurance. Topics include: the historical development of U.S. health insurance and the theory of insurance demand, the problems of adverse selection and moral hazard, as the management of hospital care and medical markets, the major role of the health insurance programs paid by the employer, saving health problems played accounts, consumer-driven plans and small business market, traditional Medicare coverage and the Medicare Advantage and Medigap coverage, Medicaid, SCHIP, and the mass departure of private coverage. Charts and tables, and bulleted summaries clarify the main points of each chapter. . . . More>>