Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
ISSN
2375-835X
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Health insurance can be, and to a large extent already is, a separate species of insurance. This article describes the different views of insurance that made health reform contentious. It argues that the goals of health reform are incompatible with conventional views of insurance. Nonetheless, reforming health insurance to achieve those goals does not require as dramatic shift as some might think, because health insurance has already become primarily a means of paying for health care, rather than a simple risk spreading device for specified losses.
Recommended Citation
Wendy K. Mariner,
Health Reform: What's Insurance Got to Do with It? Recognizing Health Insurance as a Separate Species of Insurance
,
in
36
American Journal of Law & Medicine
436
(2010).
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