As the Senate prepares to consider health-care reform legislation, a key policy issue remains unsolved: how to prevent what industry insiders call “adverse selection.” The bills under consideration, ...

Nina Owcharenko Schaefer is well known as a champion of patient choice and robust competition in America’s health insurance markets. In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed a bold ...

I'm afraid we're all just going to have to adjust to the fact that it's going to be All Healthcare, All the Time until the August recess. So: onto adverse selection. Adverse selection is the idea that ...

Adverse selection in health insurance happens when sicker people—or those who present a higher risk to the insurer—buy health insurance while healthier people don’t buy it. Adverse selection can also ...

Capitol Desk delivers the latest in health care policy and politics from Sacramento and around the state. Have an idea? Let us know. The Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) has had some experience ...

(MoneyWatch) In my discussion of the economics underlying the health insurance mandate (and the penalties needed to enforce it), I talked about the adverse selection problem. But that is not the only ...

What do health insurance and all-you-can-eat buffets have in common? The economic theory of adverse selection tells us that neither should exist. Consider the case of Bill Wisth. Bill is ...

I'm afraid we're all just going to have to adjust to the fact that it's going to be All Healthcare, All the Time until the August recess. So: onto adverse selection. Adverse selection is the idea that ...

The official ObamaCare "enrollment" numbers are out, and they're very close to the unofficial estimates on which we based yesterday's column arguing that the "adverse selection" problem does indeed ...