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Transferable Ageing Provisions in Individual Health Insurance Contracts

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  • Florian Baumann
  • Volker Meier

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  • Martin Werding

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We consider lifetime health insurance contracts in which ageing provisions are used tosmooth the premium profile. The capital stock accumulated for each individual can bedecomposed into two parts: a premium insurance and an annuitised life insurance, onlythe latter being transferable between insurers without triggering premium changesthrough risk segmentation. In a simulation based on German data, the transferable sharedeclines in age and falls with an increasing age of entry into the contract. In spite ofdifferent benefit profiles, it is almost identical for women and men.

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Paper provided by Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich in its series Ifo Working Paper Series with number Ifo Working Paper No. 32.

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Date of creation: 2006
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Handle: RePEc:ces:ifowps:_32

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Keywords: Health insurance; lifetime contracts; ageing provisions; premium insurance; simulations;

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  1. Volker Meier, 2006. "Nicht jede Reform ist eine gute Reform: Verfahren zur Übertragung individueller Alterungsrückstellungen in der Privaten Krankenversicherung," Ifo Schnelldienst, Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 59(16), pages 21-24, 08.
  2. Martin Werding & Stuart McLennan, 2012. "International Portability of Health-Cost Cover: Mobility, Insurance, and Redistribution," CESifo Working Paper Series 3952, CESifo Group Munich.
  3. Volker Meier, 2005. "Efficient Transfer of Aging Provisions in Private Health Insurance," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 84(3), pages 249-275, 05.
  4. Nell, Martin & Rosenbrock, Stephan, 2007. "Wettbewerb in kapitalgedeckten Krankenversicherungssystemen: Ein konsistenter Ansatz zur Übertragung von individuellen Alterungsrückstellungen in der Privaten Krankenversicherung," Working Papers on Risk and Insurance 19, University of Hamburg, Institute for Risk and Insurance.
  5. Martin Nell & Stephan Rosenbrock, 2008. "Wettbewerb in kapitalgedeckten Krankenversicherungssystemen: Ein risikogerechter Ansatz zur Übertragung von Alterungsrückstellungen in der Privaten Krankenversicherung," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 9(2), pages 173-195, 05.
  6. Werding, Martin & McLennan, Stuart, 2011. "International portability of health-cost coverage : concepts and experience," Social Protection Discussion Papers 63929, The World Bank.
  7. Susanna Kochskämper, 2012. "Reformdebatten in der Krankenversicherung vor dem Hintergrund des europäischen Binnenmarktes," Otto-Wolff-Institut Discussion Paper Series 02/2012, Otto-Wolff-Institut für Wirtschaftsordnung, Köln, Deutschland.

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