Description/Abstract
Although chronically ill individuals need protection against high medical expenses, they often have difficulty obtaining adequate insurance coverage due to medical underwriting practices used to classify and price risks and to define and limit coverage for individuals and groups. Using data from healthy and chronically ill individuals in Indiana, we found that illness decreased the probability of having adequate insurance, particularly among single individuals. Chronic illness decreased the probability of having adequate coverage by about 10 percentage points among all individuals and by about 25 percentage points among single individuals. Pre-existing condition exclusions were a major source of inadequate insurance. Our results emphasize the impact of enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1997, which limits pre-existing condition exclusions.
Document Type
Working Paper
Date
2000
Keywords
Analysis of health care markets, health production, public health, chronic illness, health insurance, health insurance coverage, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, HIPAA
Language
English
Series
Working Papers Series
Disciplines
Health Policy
Recommended Citation
Stroupe, Kevin T.; Kinney, Eleanor D.; and Kniesner, Thomas J., "Does Chronic Illness Affect the Adequacy of Health Insurance Coverage?" (2000). Center for Policy Research. 132.
https://surface.syr.edu/cpr/132
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