What Is Health Insurance (Good) For? An Examination of Who Gets It, Who Pays for It, and How to Improve It /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lieberthal, Robert D. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • The history of health insurance
  • Health economics, risk, and finance
  • Demand for health insurance
  • Supply of health insurance
  • Features of health insurance
  • Purchasing health insurance
  • Health policy and health insurance
  • Promoting value in health insurance.