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Adverse Selection |
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Adverse Selection 1. The tendency of those in dangerous jobs or high risk lifestyles to get life insurance.
2. A situation where sellers have information that buyers don't (or vice versa) about some aspect of product quality. Notes: 1. In order to fight adverse selection, insurance companies try to reduce exposure to large claims by limiting coverage or raising premiums.Adverse selection Refers to a situation in which sellers have relevant information that buyers lack (or vice versa) about some aspect of product quality. |
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The premier
issue includes articles on: possible adverse selection due to greater
Medicare HMO enrollment; a game theoretical model of drug launch in
India; the trade in human organs; cross-national comparisons of human
resources for health; and, setting health care priorities. The employee, of course,
would like to be hired, and so has an incentive to appear more
diligent during the interview than he really is; this fact
complicates the employer's efforts to pick the sort of employee
who will want to work hard, a phenomenon referred to as the
adverse selection problem. ``We believe adverse selection is a significantly greater risk in
the current environment of intensifying price competition than it was
two-to-three years ago when Aetna put through higher rate increases to
restore profitability. |
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