Part+4+-+Health+Insurance

Health insurance - What is the effect of health insurance? What is the effect of deductibles and coinsurance rates? How do companies decide on a premium? How does insurance affect people’s incentive to have higher quality care? How does that affect health care costs? Includes chapter eleven. Why are people uninsured?

Managed care plans

Expected utility - The demand for health insurance

Reimbursement - How do different reimbursement schemes affect physicians and hospital incentive to provide care? What is the difference in incentives between Fee For Service vs DRGs?

Not-for-profit providers - What is the difference in incentives between not for profit and for profit providers? What happens if not-for-profits don’t make a profit?

Malpractice insurance