Insurance agents: Ignored players in health insurance reform

Health Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 137-143

  Garnick, Deborah W ^a   Swartz, Katherine ^a   Skwara, Kathleen Carley ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; ROLE PLAYING; UNITED STATES;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; INSURANCE CARRIERS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; INTERVIEWS; NEW JERSEY; POLICY MAKING; ROLE;

EID: 0032016569     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.17.2.137     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. U.S. General Accounting Office, Private Health Insurance: Millions Relying on Individual Market Face Cost and Coverage Trade-Offs, GAO/HEHS-97-8 (Washington: GAO, November 1996).
2. New Jersey Individual Health Insurance Reform Act, N.J.S.A. 17B, 27A-2 et seq.;
3. and J.C. Cantor, "Caring for the Uninsured and Underinsured: Health Care Unreform, The Newjersey Approach," Journal of the American Medical Association (22/29 December 1993): 2968-2970.
4. Insurer and carrier are used interchangeably in this paper to refer to health plans that provide a defined set of benefits for a monthly premium as well as to indemnity insurers.
5. Standard plans are also a key feature of the 1990 Medigap reform legislation. This is described in LA. McCormack et al., "Medigap Reform Legislation of 1990: Have the Objectives Been Met?" Health Care Financing Review (Fall 1996): 157-174.
6. K. O'Leary, "Individual and Small Employee Health Insurance Markets Progress Report: August 1993-April 1996," available online at www.naic.org/nj/refprog.htm.
7. G. Claxton and L. Levitt, Reform of the Individual Health Insurance Market (Fairfax, Va.: Lewin Group, August 1996).