Health Reform without Side Effects : Making Markets Work for Individual Health Insurance.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by John Raisian -- Acknowledgments -- Problem definition -- The lay of the land: How many people have what problems? -- Can individual insurance help? -- Coverage for high risks -- Community rating: the worst possible way to do a good thing -- What's wrong with individual insurance? -- What is good about the individual market? -- How not to critique the individual health insurance market -- Lowering administrative costs -- Buying groups and exchanges: How many Chihuahuas equal a Great Dane? -- Regulation and pricing without exchanges -- Insurance company economics, sharp practices, premiums, and exclusions -- Subsidies -- What to hope for and what to expect -- Offering the right product -- The ideal and the feasible: compromises and mixes -- Conclusion -- References -- About the Author -- About the Hoover Institution Working Group on Health Care Policy -- Index.

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