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The 20 pages that link to Health insurance, each with the reason it gives.

• Information asymmetryRelated: Insurers and applicants often know different things about health risks.

• Moral hazardBroader topic: Coverage can affect both demand for care and choices that influence health risks.

• InsuranceBroader topic: It transfers some costs of treatment and care from individuals to insurers.

• Social insuranceRelated: Some countries organize health coverage as a contributory social insurance program.

• Adverse selectionNarrower topic: People often know more about their health needs than insurers do.

• Social protectionRelated: Health coverage protects households from medical costs that can trigger or deepen poverty.

• Actuarial scienceBroader topic: Actuaries forecast medical claims to set prices and assess financial exposure.

• Health economicsRelated: Insurance design affects access, spending, and incentives for patients and providers.

• Civil marriageRelated: Some systems and plans permit spouses to receive coverage through one another.

• DSM-IVRelated: DSM-IV codes helped document diagnoses for reimbursement and administrative decisions.

• Prescription drugRelated: Coverage rules influence the affordability and availability of prescribed medicines.

• Single-payer healthcareNarrower topic: Single-payer healthcare centralizes the insurance function in one public entity.

• Domestic partnershipRelated: Some employers extend partner coverage to registered domestic partners.

• George AkerlofRelated: Insurers’ and customers’ different information about health risks create problems related to adverse selection.

• Peltzman effectRelated: Coverage can reduce the personal cost of risky health choices, a related incentive mechanism.

• AllianzRelated: Allianz offers health coverage in several national markets.

• Health Care Economics and OrganizationsRelated: Insurance changes patients’ prices at the point of care and determines how providers are paid.

• Health lawRelated: Coverage rules shape access to care and disputes over payment.

• Healthcare industryRelated: Insurance shapes how patients access care and how providers receive payment.

• Healthcare policyRelated: Coverage rules determine which services people can afford to use.