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October 01, 2004
State Health Insurance Market Reform: Toward Inclusive andSustainable Health Insurance Markets
Editors: Alan C. Monheit and Joel C. Cantor
ISBN: 0-415-70035-3
Publisher: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics
Availability: October 2004
Description: Since the late 1980s, many US states have sought to incrementally reform their health insurance markets. The intent of such reform has been quite straightforward: to ensure access to affordable health insurance by addressing insurer practices perceived to be exclusionary. In the light of this, a compelling public policy issue is whether these efforts to address disparities in the population's access to health insurance have been successful or yielded unintended consequences.
This volume provides a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge on insurance market reform that is accessible to both policymakers and researchers. The contributions provide a critical evaluation of empirical research findings, applied methodologies, and policy implications associated with state reform of small-group and individual insurance markets.
With contributions from internationally respected health economists, as well as industry, regulatory, and consumer representatives, this book will prove to be a useful read for all those with an interest in the economics of health care.
More information on the book may be obtained at Routledge
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Alan C. Monheit and Joel C. Cantor
PART I. 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 II. Responses to Findings on Insurance Market Reform
4. What Can We Learn from the Research on Insurance Market Reform? Thomas C. Buchmueller
5. A Critical Assessment of Research on Insurance Market Reform: Barbara
Steinberg Schone
PART III. Perspectives from the Field: How Can Access to Affordable Coverage
be Sustained?
6. An Insurance Executive Reflects on 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 IV. Reforming Insurance Market Reform: 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
