Reinsuring Health: Why More Middle Class People Are Uninsured and What the Government Can Do

• Date: April 06, 2010
• Source: Admin

In 2008, the number of nonelderly Americans without health insurance approached 47 million people, with millions of others concerned that a faltering economy may increase their chances of losing their own health care coverage. As the United States considers a variety of alternatives to decrease the ranks of the uninsured, Katherine Swartz offers a timely book on how the face of the uninsured has dramatically changed over the past quarter century and provides a thoughtful proposal for improving how health insurers can better address this crisis in coverage. In Reinsuring Health, Swartz examines whether a public–private health care reinsurance model can be implemented on a national level, designed as a program in which the federal government assumes the role of the reinsurer of catastrophically high health care risks.