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Life, Health, And Disability Insurance: Understanding The Relationships, Robert H. Jerry Ii Jul 2007

Life, Health, And Disability Insurance: Understanding The Relationships, Robert H. Jerry Ii

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This project focuses on the extent to which dis-ability insurers should be allowed to use genetic information in underwriting and rate-setting, but this subject cannot be completely isolated from the related questions of whether life and health insurers should also have this discretion. Federal and state laws place significant restrictions on insurers' use of genetic information in health insurance, but regulation of such use in life and disability insurance is considerably more modest. This essay examines the reasons for this disparity and discusses the implications for future proposals to regulate disability insurers' use of genetic information in underwriting and rate-set-ting. …


Health Insurance Coverage For High-Cost Health Care: Reflections On The Rainmaker, Robert H. Jerry Ii Jan 1996

Health Insurance Coverage For High-Cost Health Care: Reflections On The Rainmaker, Robert H. Jerry Ii

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This article reflects upon the film "The Rainmaker" and analyzes how the health insurance coverage problems that it addresses take us to the vortex of some of the most difficult issues facing our nation's health care system.