In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near-universal health insurance coverage. The key …

such as insurance, price regulation, managed care networks and noncontractible elements of quality of care are incorporated …

This chapter reviews topics related to the demand for health insurance, including the question of how choice of health … insurance should be structured for consumers. After the first section summarizes some of the institutional features of health … insurance in high- and middle-income countries, a second section synthesizes the normative and empirical literature on demand …

provided more efficiently through other forms of social or private insurance. In theory, a negligence rule creates incentives … for efficient care, hence there should be no negligence, no claims and no demand for liability insurance. In practice, the … information and extensive health insurance lead to biased and uncertain legal standards. Uncertain legal standards create …