Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Why do employers self-insure? new explanations for the choice of self-insurance vs. purchased health insurance

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Why do employers self-insure? new explanations for the choice of self-insurance vs. purchased health insurance / Roger Feldman

Sumario: This paper proposes that an employer's choice of self-insurance vs. purchased health insurance can be explained by a trade-off between administrator moral hazard, the incentive for third-party administrators to be inefficient managers of self-insured employers medical claims and employer moral hazard, the insured employer's failure to invest in reducing health risks among its workers. These explanations have not been analysed in the literature but they are broadly consistent with data and they can explain the increasing popularity of self-insurance over the past 10 years

En: Geneva papers on risk and insurance : issues and practice. - Geneva : The Geneva Association, 1976- = ISSN 1018-5895. - 08/10/2012 Volumen 37 Número 4 - octubre 2012 , p. 696-711

1. Seguro de salud . 2. Empresas de seguros . 3. Análisis de riesgos . 4. Reclamaciones . 5. Autoseguro . I. Título.