Concept information
social science subjects
health and social care
health care quality, access, and evaluation
health services research
Preferred term
health insurance
Definition
- Health insurance often seems confusing and can be difficult to navigate for even the most knowledgeable consumer. It is one of the most talked about topics in political elections and has received considerable media attention because of the rules and restrictions placed on people who have insurance and the plight of the growing numbers of uninsured Americans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Health Insurance]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- accident insurance
- adverse selection
- Affordable Care Act
- Blue Cross
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield
- carve-outs
- Children's Health Insurance Program
- coinsurance
- consumer-directed health plans
- crowd-out
- dental insurance
- employee health benefit plans
- employee health benefits
- flexible spending accounts
- for-profit insurance plans
- health insurance coverage
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- health savings accounts
- hospitalization insurance
- long-term care insurance
- major medical insurance
- managed care programs
- managed competition
- medical savings accounts
- Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit
- Medigap
- moral hazard
- national health insurance in the United States
- not-for-profit insurance plans
- nursing services insurance
- permanent health insurance
- pharmaceutical services insurance
- physician services insurance
- prepaid health plans
- private health insurance
- psychiatric insurance
- Rand Health Insurance Experiment
- reimbursement of health insurance
- Ryan White CARE Act
- selective contracting
- single-payer systems
- state-based health insurance initiatives
- surgical insurance
- tax subsidy of employer-sponsored health insurance
- value-based purchasing
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/health_insurance
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