The economics of community rating and the individual mandate
Austin Frakt April 11, 2013
If you think the purpose of the individual mandate is to avert a death spiral by addressing health-based selection into the insurance pool, I would
If you think the purpose of the individual mandate is to avert a death spiral by addressing health-based selection into the insurance pool, I would
It’s not known what, precisely, is meant by “sufficient competition,” but whatever it is, it’s not what exists today in the health insurance market in
The US National Academy of Sciences reports on US health in a global perspective and the news is bad. Citizens of peer nations live longer than
You may have already heard quite a lot about consequences of the Massachusetts’ health reform. But, have you seen it all in charts? Now you
As I mentioned earlier, I’m at Amherst College for a few days talking to economics and premed students. At dinner tonight, one of the things
There has been an expression of concern among some analysts about the three-to-one age-based community rating of premiums in the ACA exchanges. You can basically throw all
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