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Remedies for Sick Insurance

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  • Daniel McFadden
  • Carlos Noton
  • Pau Olivella

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  • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
  • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
  • I13 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Insurance, Public and Private
  • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

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  1. Filipova-Neumann, Lilia & Hoy, Michael, 2014. "Managing genetic tests, surveillance, and preventive medicine under a public health insurance system," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 31-41.
  2. Daniel McFadden & Carlos Noton & Pau Olivella, 2015. "Minimum coverage regulation in insurance markets," SERIEs- Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, Springer;Spanish Economic Association, vol. 6(3), pages 247-278, August.

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