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Individual Insurance This study examines strategies that insurers have used to attract younger, healthy consumers in the individual market, and how those are likely to change under health reform.	Reports	11/05/2009
Health Insurers Pursue Growth Potential of Individual Market Insurers are pursuing strategies to tap the growth potential of the individual health insurance market, including entering less-regulated markets and developing lower-cost, less-comprehensive products targeting younger, healthy consumers, according to a study released...	News releases	11/05/2009
Sources of Advantageous Selection Contrary to the conventional wisdom, this new research found both strong evidence of multidimensional private information and advantageous selection in the Medigap market. The authors argue that selection based on risk aversion is advantageous, assuming those who... Published In: Journal of Political Economy	Journal articles	11/04/2009
Geographic Variation and Health Care Cost Growth As policymakers consider measures to contain health care costs, this brief examines what is driving that spiral and the policy levers that might control it, such as the approval process required for new facilities.	Issue and policy briefs	11/02/2009
Expanding Health Insurance Coverage for Rural Residents through Health Reform An analysis looks at why residents of rural areas have higher uninsurance rates than their urban counterparts and how to remedy that.	Issue and policy briefs	10/29/2009
Illness and Injury Can Lead to Personal Bankruptcy Researchers with Harvard Medical School studying the relationship between illness, injury and bankruptcy and found that medical problems contributed to about half of all bankruptcies.	Grant Results Reports	10/29/2009
Health Insurance Fraud: An Overview In 2007, the U.S. spent nearly $2.3 trillion on health care and public and private insurers processed more than 4 billion health insurance claims. The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) has estimated that, conservatively, 3% of all health care...	Reports	10/28/2009
Health Care Fraud This analysis finds that fraud poses a major challenge in both the private and public insurance sectors and recommends policies aimed at assuring uniform and transparent measurement and reporting of fraud across all forms of coverage.	Reports	10/28/2009
Insurance Reform: Leveling the Playing Field? (from Health Affairs/RWJF Health Policy Brief Series) How different proposals stack up in terms of broadening coverage for individuals and small businesses, and their potential impact on the country. Published In: Health Affairs/RWJF Policy Brief Series	Issue and policy briefs	10/22/2009
Three-Fourths of Massachusetts Physicians Support Continuing State's Health Reform Law A study published the New England Journal of Medicine finds that a large majority of practicing physicians in Massachusetts support health reform three years after its passage in 2006.	News releases	10/21/2009

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