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Consumers, Insurers, and Market Behavior

Consumers, Insurers, and Market Behavior The average consumer of individual insurance is very much like the average of the general population. Specifically, most are adults of childbearing age (aged eighteen to forty-four) or children. They live in metropolitan areas, in families headed by a full-time full-year wage or salary worker, and have moderate or high family income. The author is grateful for support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in preparing this article, and from both the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation in compiling the 1995 insurer database. The author gratefully acknowledges Adele M. Kirk and Stacy Halbert, both colleagues at the Alpha Center, for their extensive and reliable participation in compiling the insurer database and tabulating the Current Population Survey. , Vol. 25, No. 1, February 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press. However, the population that buys individual health insurance is diverse, and examination of the average is in some respects misleading. Although they are not the majority, individual insurance consumers are more likely than the general population to be older (aged fifty-five to sixty-four) and to live in smaller cities or rural areas. Also, they are more likely than the population at large to be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Duke University Press

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Publisher
Duke University Press
Copyright
Copyright 2000 by Duke University Press
ISSN
0361-6878
eISSN
1527-1927
DOI
10.1215/03616878-25-1-27
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Abstract

The average consumer of individual insurance is very much like the average of the general population. Specifically, most are adults of childbearing age (aged eighteen to forty-four) or children. They live in metropolitan areas, in families headed by a full-time full-year wage or salary worker, and have moderate or high family income. The author is grateful for support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in preparing this article, and from both the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation in compiling the 1995 insurer database. The author gratefully acknowledges Adele M. Kirk and Stacy Halbert, both colleagues at the Alpha Center, for their extensive and reliable participation in compiling the insurer database and tabulating the Current Population Survey. , Vol. 25, No. 1, February 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Duke University Press. However, the population that buys individual health insurance is diverse, and examination of the average is in some respects misleading. Although they are not the majority, individual insurance consumers are more likely than the general population to be older (aged fifty-five to sixty-four) and to live in smaller cities or rural areas. Also, they are more likely than the population at large to be

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and LawDuke University Press

Published: Feb 1, 2000

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