Health insurance: tradeoffs revisited.

National health insurance revisited.

Health Insurance for Children

An important challenge in designing policy initiatives to address the problem of uninsured children is that the objectives implicit in the programs can conflict. These conflicts necessitate prioritizing multiple objectives and identifying acceptable tradeoffs in order to achieve effective policy design that reflects the nation’s social priorities. This article provides a general discussion of s...

Swiss-CHAT: Citizens Discuss Priorities for Swiss Health Insurance Coverage

Background As universal health coverage becomes the norm in many countries, it is important to determine public priorities regarding benefits to include in health insurance coverage. We report results of participation in a decision exercise among residents of Switzerland, a high-income country with a long history of universal health insurance and deliberative democracy.   Methods We adapted the...

Conflict and compromise over tradeoffs in universal health insurance plans.

Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation: a tradeoff between selection and efficiency.

This paper describes forms of risk sharing between insurers and the regulator in a competitive individual health insurance market with imperfectly risk-adjusted capitation payments. Risk sharing implies a reduction of an insurer's incentives for selection as well as for efficiency. In a theoretical analysis, we show how the optimal extent of risk sharing may depend on the weights the regulator ...