The Private Insurance Market: Not Very Big and Not Insuring Much, Either.
Creating a single national health insurance pool is not likely to destabilize the economy by supplanting the private health insurance industry. This industry insures a relatively small percentage of the population and holds very little of the risk such insurance implies. In effect, insurance compani...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 877 - 883 |
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Cambridge University Press
Winter2018
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