Overview
- Serves as a primer on health insurance
- Offers an integrated perspective on health insurance
- Provides a policy-oriented approach to health insurance
- Proposes specific policies to improve health insurance
- Examines how health insurance will evolve in the future
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Importance of Health Insurance
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Front Matter
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Health Insurance Markets
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Front Matter
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Health Insurance Policy
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Health insurance policy
- Affordable Care Act
- ACA
- Health care reform
- ObamaCare
- Health insurance alternatives
- U.S. health insurance system
- Future of health insurance
- History of health insurance
- Health economics
- Health insurance supply and demand
- Health services research
- Third party payers
- Healthcare reimbursement
- Healthcare costs
- Healthcare financial risks
- Health insurers
- Outcomes research
- Insurance economics
- Risk management and insurance
About this book
This informative volume synthesizes the literatures on health economics, risk management, and health services into a concise guide to the financial and social basics of health insurance with an eye to its wide-scale upgrade. Its scope takes in concepts of health capital, strengths and limitations of insurance models, the effectiveness of coverage and services, and the roles of healthcare providers and government agencies in the equation. Coverage surveys the current state of group and public policies, most notably the effects of the Affordable Care Act on insurers and consumers and the current interest in universal coverage and single-payer plans. Throughout, the author provides systemic reasons to explain why today’s health insurance fails so many consumers, concluding with reality-based recommendations for making insurance more valuable to both today’s market and consumer well-being.
Included among the topics:
·Defining health insurance and healthcare finance.
·Consuming and investing in health.
·The scope of health insurance and its constraints.
·Matching health insurance supply and demand. ·The role of government in health insurance.·Ongoing challenges and the future of health insurance.
Bringing a needed degree of objectivity to often highly subjective material, What Is Health Insurance (Good) For? is a call to reform to be read by health insurance researchers (including risk management insurance and health services research), professionals, practitioners, and policymakers.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: What Is Health Insurance (Good) For?
Book Subtitle: An Examination of Who Gets It, Who Pays for It, and How to Improve It
Authors: Robert D. Lieberthal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43796-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43795-8Published: 02 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82912-8Published: 14 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43796-5Published: 26 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Insurance, Health Economics, Health Care Management