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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
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Economics [1]
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