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Acknowledgments; Contents; The Importance of Health Insurance; 1 Defining Health Insurance; 1.1 Healthcare Finance; 1.1.1 Defining Healthcare Finance; 1.1.2 Demand and Supply of Healthcare Finance; 1.1.3 The Subjectivity of Healthcare Finance; 1.1.4 Alternative Forms of Healthcare Finance; 1.2 The Growth of Health Insurance; 1.2.1 Diverse Beginnings of Health Insurance; 1.2.2 Policy and the Growth of Health Insurance; 1.2.3 Professionalizing Health Insurance; 1.3 The Health Insurance Literatures; 1.3.1 Health Insurance Policy; 1.3.2 Health Economics; 1.3.3 Risk Management and Insurance
1.3.4 Health Services ResearchReferences; 2 Insuring Health Capital; 2.1 The Economic Value of Health; 2.1.1 Consuming and Investing in Health; 2.1.2 Health Investments; 2.1.3 The Health Capital Model; 2.2 Risk Aversion and Health Risks; 2.2.1 Changes in Health Capital; 2.2.2 Valuing Health Capital; 2.2.3 Health Risk Aversion; 2.2.4 Health Insurance Choices; 2.3 Financial Intermediation of Healthcare Spending; 2.3.1 Insuring Health Indirectly; 2.3.2 Monetizing the Value of Health; 2.3.3 Challenges in Monetizing Health Capital; 2.3.4 Health Insurance Pricing
2.3.5 Scale and Scope in Third-Party PaymentReferences; 3 The Scope of Health Insurance; 3.1 Measuring the Degree of Protection; 3.1.1 Defining Quantity; 3.1.2 Measuring Quality; 3.1.3 Determining Prices; 3.2 Optimizing Health Insurance; 3.2.1 Health Insurance Trade-offs; 3.2.2 Optimal Health Insurance as a Benchmark; 3.2.3 Determining the Optimal Policy; 3.3 Constraints on the Scope of Insurance; 3.3.1 Insurer Constraints; 3.3.2 Asymmetry of Information; 3.3.3 Moral Hazard; 3.3.4 Adverse Selection; 3.3.5 Other Economic Externalities; 3.3.6 Irrationality of Consumers and Producers; References
Health Insurance Markets4 Demand for Health Insurance; 4.1 Health Insurance Demand Functions; 4.1.1 The Demand Side of Markets; 4.1.2 Demand as a Function of Price; 4.1.3 Constrained Willingness to Pay; 4.1.4 Diminishing Marginal Benefit of Health Insurance; 4.1.5 Different Types of Demand Functions; 4.2 Individual Demand; 4.2.1 Direct Purchase of Insurance; 4.2.2 Explaining Individual Demand; 4.2.3 The Services Individuals Purchase; 4.3 Group Demand; 4.3.1 Employer-Provided Coverage; 4.3.2 Explaining Employer-Provided Coverage; 4.3.3 Social Insurance; 4.3.4 Explaining Social Insurance
1.3.4 Health Services ResearchReferences; 2 Insuring Health Capital; 2.1 The Economic Value of Health; 2.1.1 Consuming and Investing in Health; 2.1.2 Health Investments; 2.1.3 The Health Capital Model; 2.2 Risk Aversion and Health Risks; 2.2.1 Changes in Health Capital; 2.2.2 Valuing Health Capital; 2.2.3 Health Risk Aversion; 2.2.4 Health Insurance Choices; 2.3 Financial Intermediation of Healthcare Spending; 2.3.1 Insuring Health Indirectly; 2.3.2 Monetizing the Value of Health; 2.3.3 Challenges in Monetizing Health Capital; 2.3.4 Health Insurance Pricing
2.3.5 Scale and Scope in Third-Party PaymentReferences; 3 The Scope of Health Insurance; 3.1 Measuring the Degree of Protection; 3.1.1 Defining Quantity; 3.1.2 Measuring Quality; 3.1.3 Determining Prices; 3.2 Optimizing Health Insurance; 3.2.1 Health Insurance Trade-offs; 3.2.2 Optimal Health Insurance as a Benchmark; 3.2.3 Determining the Optimal Policy; 3.3 Constraints on the Scope of Insurance; 3.3.1 Insurer Constraints; 3.3.2 Asymmetry of Information; 3.3.3 Moral Hazard; 3.3.4 Adverse Selection; 3.3.5 Other Economic Externalities; 3.3.6 Irrationality of Consumers and Producers; References
Health Insurance Markets4 Demand for Health Insurance; 4.1 Health Insurance Demand Functions; 4.1.1 The Demand Side of Markets; 4.1.2 Demand as a Function of Price; 4.1.3 Constrained Willingness to Pay; 4.1.4 Diminishing Marginal Benefit of Health Insurance; 4.1.5 Different Types of Demand Functions; 4.2 Individual Demand; 4.2.1 Direct Purchase of Insurance; 4.2.2 Explaining Individual Demand; 4.2.3 The Services Individuals Purchase; 4.3 Group Demand; 4.3.1 Employer-Provided Coverage; 4.3.2 Explaining Employer-Provided Coverage; 4.3.3 Social Insurance; 4.3.4 Explaining Social Insurance