Asymmetric Information and Health Insurance

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Asymmetric Information and Health Insurance

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9 жыл бұрын

In this video, we discuss asymmetric information, adverse selection, and propitious selection in relation to the market for health insurance. Health insurance consumers come in a range of health, but to insurance companies, everyone has the same average health. Consumer have more information about their health than do insurers. How does this affect the price of health insurance? Why would some consumers prefer to not buy health insurance at all? And how does this all relate to the Affordable Care Act? Let’s dive in.
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@malsawmkimapautu3548 6 жыл бұрын

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@Lyle-xc9pg 5 жыл бұрын

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@k.g.vishal6690 2 ай бұрын

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@RobertitoF1 6 жыл бұрын

Surely the way to overcome the problems of group health insurance is tying insurance to membership of a group that is more stable than working for a particular employer. An obvious choice would be citizenship (or residency): if health insurance is provided to everyone who is a citizen (or resident), the problem of losing insurance when you lose your job or retire is eliminated. What's more, since paying taxes is a requirement of citizenship (or residency), you can compel everyone to pay in a manner that is equitable, rather than forcing those can often least afford it (ie. sick people) to pay the most. This is why there is not a single successful private healthcare system in the world, whereas socialised health care is successful in numerous countries.

@VeryProPlayerYesSir1122 3 жыл бұрын

How about you buy your own insurance instead of asking the gov and employer to do that for you?

@jasonleelawlight 11 ай бұрын

I don't think it's because the group is more stable, the group is essentially a filter to make sure that people in it should be healthy enough to work, so it automatically has filtered out most of the extremely unhealthy people. Also since there are more potential customers bundled together it has more bargaining power than an individual. These are the main reasons why health insurance companies are willing to take these groups and charge them at relatively low prices. But I do agree that a universal health care is an option worth considering at least.

@arandomeconteacher7032 9 ай бұрын

What's the data on wait times and survivability for various diseases?

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@adgstr 4 жыл бұрын

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@SBk408 6 жыл бұрын

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@cassiuslives4807 8 жыл бұрын

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@pw2545 7 жыл бұрын

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@pleiadez43 7 жыл бұрын

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@nighferl01 8 жыл бұрын

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@samhuileo 7 жыл бұрын

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@johnmather6661 6 жыл бұрын

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@Lyle-xc9pg 5 жыл бұрын

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@Josefk40 4 жыл бұрын

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@dooglio 7 жыл бұрын

I think the makers of this video do not understand how insurance actually works in terms of health care. There never used to be an over-regulated, managed healthcare system in the US--it used to only be catastrophic health insurance. For all other medical needs, one paid out of pocket. Like life insurance, the idea is to get a policy when you are young and healthy, and you contribute to a pool that over time is available to you if or when you do get sick. In the event of a very expensive operation that you might have to have, the risk is spread over all of the healthy people that have insurance. The ACA is attempting to force into the market what would happen if we had a truly free market in health care insurance, not the regulated and cartelized monstrosity we are faced with today. We don't need an ACA for life insurance, so we certainly don't need one for medical insurance. Insurance companies also invest their capital into the stock market. Their income stream is not just limited to underwriting income. This was not discussed in the video, either.

@dooglio 7 жыл бұрын

Another way to put it is this: if insurance in health care can't work because of market failure, then let it fail. The ACA is just propping up a failed system.

@limaifoodmachinery2675 4 жыл бұрын

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@tsunningwah3471 10 ай бұрын

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@johnbrooker9468 5 жыл бұрын

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@Danilo95BR 4 жыл бұрын

Solution: Universal healthcare

@mknf5091 4 жыл бұрын

@Danilo95BR 4 жыл бұрын

@@mknf5091 hahahah that problem only exists in US

@mknf5091 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel LV uhh there’s no state healthcare in Switzerland and they do just fine

@Danilo95BR 4 жыл бұрын

@@mknf5091 The State of switzerland regulates and subsidizes part of the insurance, but the problem is the real price has increased in the last 20 years

@mknf5091 4 жыл бұрын

Daniel LV >regulates insurance >price increases yeah i wonder why