Asymmetric Information, Insurance
buyer information - seller often knows more about good than buyer
medical insurance - insurance companies need to cover their losses
- patients know more about their health than company
- patients with worse health buy insurance >> insurance costs rise >> patients w/ better health no longer buy insurance >> health companies screwed
- in response, insurance companies offer insurance at companies, to include healthy/unhealthy patients
- a sort of bundling w/ the job
- moral hazard - those w/ insurance more susceptible to doing risky things
Subject:
Economics [1]
Subject X2:
Economics [1]