healthcare markets

How Do Health Insurance Companies Beat Their Competition?

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How Do Health Insurance Companies Beat Their Competition? This is the 20th edition of the annual study, “Competition in Health Insurance: A Comprehensive Study of U.S. Markets,” (PDF) and it shows that 73% of health insurance markets in U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) were highly concentrated in 2020 as calculated by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Indices (HHI).

How Much Would Health Insurance Cost Free Market?

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How Much Would Health Insurance Cost Free Market? In a system of free-market healthcare, prices for healthcare goods and services are set freely by agreement between patients and health care providers, and the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority. Why healthcare