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...

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Publicado en:Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 877 - 883
Autor principal: Fox, Jacqueline
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Winter2018
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        affil: Jacqueline Fox, J.D., LL.M., is a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and a J.D. and LL.M. from Georgetown University School of Law, completed a post-doctoral Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown University, and was a Donaghue Visiting Scholar of Research Ethics at Yale University. Professor Fox publishes in the areas of healthcare reform and public health.
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          Health Insurance Exchanges
          Insurance Carriers
          Private Sector
          Insurance, Health Economics
          United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
          Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
          Insurance Coverage Economics
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          United States
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      ab: 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 companies function as middlemen, bundling risk packages to distribute to other, larger companies and so serve a limited purpose. Were insurers to handle claims for a national pool as they do for the Medicare program, any destabilization to the economy more broadly would be further minimized.
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