健康有所不同.pdfVIP

Health and Health Care • Health – The physical and mental status of people’s bodies • Health care – Services and products that are transferred to people to make them healthy • Health insurance – One particular way that payments can flow from people to those who provide health care Three Distinguishing Features of Health • Uncertainty • Asymmetric Information • Externalities – Hence massive ernment intervention Health Mixes Multiple Objectives • Objectives about “Health Insurance” • Protection