Health Economics
14th Edition
ISBN: 9781137029966
Author: Jay Bhattacharya
Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE CUSTOMER SERVICE
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Chapter 7, Problem 8E
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Which option is the most effective for companies and employees: a standard fee-for-services health care insurance option or a high-deductible health insurance plan.
In 2008, what percentage of all people in the United States did not have health insurance?
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Explain the retrospective insurance plan and identify a problem associated with this planin relation to your local environment.
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- Insurance is basically the transferring of risk from one party to another. A. True B. False The cost of healthcare is higher than most other developed countries. A. True B. Falsearrow_forwardApproximately __________ million Americans are without health insurance.arrow_forwardIndicate whether the statement is true or false, and justify your answer.Insurance represents a transfer of wealth from healthy states to sick states.arrow_forward
- Health insurance is aarrow_forwardWhich type of coverage has the highest number of enrollees in US: Medicare Medicaid Employer-sponsored health insurance none of the abovearrow_forwardHow can I Analyze the effect of healthcare reform on the healthcare consumer who uses the Insurance company launching a new medical product for the health insurance exchangearrow_forward
- Based on Friedman and savage utility of income what factors affect demand for health insurance?arrow_forwardMedicare recipients can purchase supplemental private insurance (known as Medigap insurance) to fill the gap in coverage left by Medicare. This gap includes copayments, deductibles, and prescription drug expenses not covered by Medicare. Several years ago, the government enacted regulations that specify minimum standards for items that Medigap policies must cover. This made the policies more expensive, and as a consequence, about 25 percent of the elderly who would have purchased some Medi-gap insurance purchased none at all [Finkelstein, 2004]. Consider an individual who consumes two goods, "insurance" and "all other goods." The cost of a unit of Medigap insurance is $1, as is the cost of a unit of all other goods. Sketch a budget constraint and set of indifference curves that are consistent with the following scenario: In an unregulated market, an individual with a $30,000 income purchases $5,000 worth of Medigap insurance. The government then puts mandates on Medigap policies that…arrow_forwardInsurance coverage has been shown to diminish the importance of time in the decision about how much medical care to seek and which providers to use. True OR Falsearrow_forward
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