Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk is up at Insurance Copywriter. Other links that I also found interesting include: Canadian healthcare spending rises to 11.9% of GDP. The public health costs of job loss. Climategate. Does the U.S. need a healthcare constitution? Computers don’t save hospitals money.
A paper by Kowalski, Congdon and Showalter (2009) examines how state health insurance regulations affect the price of health insurance. The four regulations are the following: Community rating regulations limit premium differences across policies. The most stringent form requires insurers to offer the same premium to every individual, regardless of age, gender, or health status.…