1st Edition

State Health Insurance Market Reform Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit Copyright 2004
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers.

    1. Introduction Alan C. Moheit and Joel C. Cantor Part One: Critical Evaluation of Research Findings 2. What Have We Learned from Research on Small-Group Market Reform? Kosali Ilayperuma Simon 3. What Have We Learned from Research on Individual Market Reform? Deborah Chollet Part Two: Responses to Findings on Insurance Market Reform 4. What Can We Learn from the Research on Insurance Market Reform? Thomas M. Buchmueller 5. A Critical Assessment of Research on Insurance Market Reform Barbara Steinberg Schone Part Three: Perpectives from the Field: How Can Access to Affordable Coverage be Sustained? 6. An Insurance Executive Reflects on Health Insurance Market Reform Sanford B. Herman 7. An Insurance Commissioner Reflects on Insurance Market Reform Steven B. Larsen 8. Can Access to Affordable Health Insurance be Sustained? Karen Pollitz Part Four: Reforming Insurance Market Reforms: What are the Possibilities? What are the Alternatives? 9. How Can Reform Work Better? M. Susan Marquis 10. Improving State Insurance Market Reform: What's Left to Try? Len M. Nichols 11. Insurance Market Reform: When, How, Why? Katherine Swartz 12. Conclusions Alan C. Monheit and Joel C. Cantor

    Biography

    Alan C. Monheit is Professor in the Division of Health Systems and Policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA. Joel C. Cantor is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, USA.