Of magic wands and kaleidoscopes: Fixing problems in the individual market

Health Affairs

Volumn 22, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Hall, Mark A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 27544479077     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
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References (17)

1. Many of these studies, conducted by me and others, are collected at a Web site that I maintain, "Wake Forest University, Health Insurance Market Reform Study," www.phs.wfubmc.edu/ insure (15 July 2002).
2. K. Pollitz, R. Sorian, and K. Thomas, How Accessible Is Individual Health Insurance for Consumers in Less-than-Perfect Health? (Menlo Park, Calif.: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2001);
3. and E. Simantov et al., "Market Failure? Individual Insurance Markets for Older Americans," Health Affairs (July/Aug 2001): 139.
4. M.V. Pauly et al., "Individual versus Job-Based Health Insurance: Weighing the Pros and Cons," Health Affairs (Nov/Dec 1999): 31.
5. D.J. Chollet and A.M. Kirk, Understanding Individual Health Insurance Markets (Menlo Park, Calif.: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, March 1998).
6. See J. Gabel et al., "Individual Insurance: How Much Financial Protection Does It Provide?" 17 April 2002, www.healthaffairs.org/Web Exclusives/Gabel_Web_Excl_041702.htm (12 August 2002).
7. M.A. Hall, "The Structure and Enforcement of Health Insurance Rating Reforms," Inquiry 37, no. 4 (2001): 376-388.
8. M.A. Hall, "An Evaluation of New York's Reform Law," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25, no. 1 (2000): 71-99;
9. M.A. Hall, "An Evaluation of Vermont's Reform Law," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25, no. 1 (2000): 101-131;
10. and K. Swartz and D. Garnick, "Lessons from New Jersey," Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25, no. 1 (2000): 45-70.
11. M.A. Hall, "The Geography of Health Insurance Regulation," Health Affairs (Mar/Apr 2000): 173-184.
12. Hall, "An Evaluation of Vermont's Reform Law."
13. D. Altman, D.M. Cutler, and R.J. Zeckhauser, "Adverse Selection and Adverse Retention," AEA Papers and Proceedings 88, no. 2 (1998): 122-126.
14. E. Wicks and M.A. Hall, "Purchasing Cooperatives for Small Employers: Performance and Prospects," Milbank Quarterly 78, no. 4 (2000): 511-546.
15. U.S. General Accounting Office, Private Health Insurance: Declining Employer Coverage May Affect Access for 55- to 64-Year-Olds, Pub. no. GAO/HEHS-98-133 (Washington: GAO, 1998).
16. M.A. Hall, E. Wicks, and J. Lawlor, "Health-Marts, HIPCs, MEWAs, and AHPs: A Guide for the Perplexed," Health Affairs (Jan/Feb 2001): 142-153.
17. For an admirable effort that creatively addresses all of the difficult issues, see T. Miller, "Improving Access to Health Care without Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage," in Covering America: Real Remedies for the Uninsured, vol. 2, ed. E.K. Wicks and J.A. Meyer (Washington: Economic and Social Research Institute, 2002).