A Burden for the Common

John Lapidus ()
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John Lapidus: University of Gothenburg

Chapter Chapter 11 in The Quest for a Divided Welfare State, 2019, pp 151-163 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract How can private health insurance be as cheap as it is? At least for the young and the healthy, who get away with a rather low premium in spite of all guarantees and promises made by insurance companies. This chapter examines how insurance companies and their policyholders free ride on the public health system, and how prices therefore can be kept lower than would otherwise have been the case. One example is that policyholders come to premises where the rent is already being paid for by the public, i.e. by the taxpayers. Another example is that private health insurance customers can be treated by doctors who are paid by the public authorities. This is partly due to the increased possibilities of multiple jobholding or so-called moonlighting.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24784-3_11

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