Without the mandate, people would only purchase coverage when they needed it, resulting
in adverse selection that would drive up premiums.
Nothing wrong with pink sheet penny stocks if you know how to pick apart financial statements; otherwise quite hazardous as this area is rife
with adverse selection.
In the case of insurance,
avoiding adverse selection requires identifying groups of people more at risk than the general population and charging them more money.
The problem is, you have a greater chance of picking losers rather than winners because
of adverse selection.
We believe these provisions will help consumers avoid gaps in coverage when they experience certain significant life changes without resulting
in adverse selection.
The cost is lower than for individual policies because administrative expenses per life are decreased, there are certain tax advantages, and measures taken
against adverse selection are effective.
The problem, of course, is that the moral hazard and
adverse selection problems here are extreme: when most people graduate from college they are massively insolvent.
«All of these limitations help
prevent adverse selection, (such as) people that know that they are dying soon will buy as much insurance as they can, and these limitations limit the financial risk to the insurer of that occurring,» says Graham
Adverse selection occurs when most people wanting to investigate the cost of coverage have a motive — they plan to file a claim.
Group coverage can help reduce the problem of
adverse selection by creating a pool of people eligible to purchase insurance who belong to the group for reasons other than the wish to buy insurance, which might be because they are a worse than average risk.
After taking more extensive steps to account for nonrandom sorting of students into classrooms and endogenous teacher exits and grade - switching, we replicate existing findings of
adverse selection out of schools and negative effects of turnover in lower - achievement schools.
Adverse selection impacts the markets for health insurance and automobile insurance, but interfering with actuarial work has consequences.
If they have someone whose term policy was approved at preferred plus rates, and the person want to convert but is in horrible health, they can use
adverse selection on them by offering a crap product to convert to.
As I wrote some years ago, «The only leadership left in Russia by the
terrible adverse selection process of the communist system was the former secret guardians of the state, men whose unique position required them to live by their wits.»
To
combat adverse selection, governments increasingly base payments to health plans and providers on enrollees» scores from risk - adjustment formulae.
(In general, lenders offering consolidation loans are concerned
about adverse selection, where a borrower who is struggling to repay his or her loans believes that consolidation will solve the problem.
, b) plays a role, but only within the 10 % stretch band, c) matters, but one can always find a portfolio's worth of low absolute valuation stuff (if one doesn't worry about the
implied adverse selection bias that when everything else is pricey, the cheap stuff is much more likely to be cheap for a good reason), or d) something else?
In addition, the Affordable Care Act aims to
decrease adverse selection by mandating that everyone have health insurance or pay a fine.
Adverse selection refers to the tendency of high - risk (non-standard) drivers to seek an insurance policy with richer benefits than those who are at a lower risk.
Since most Medicaid recipients don't pay premiums, there's little risk of
adverse selection due to healthy people trying to save on premiums.
If adverse selection were allowed to continue unchecked, health insurance companies would become unprofitable and eventually go out of business.
Adverse selection ends up working to concentrate risks borne by providers rather than spreading it out evenly across their entire customer base.
Everyone must re-enroll for January, which presents another hurdle for the state and another opportunity
for adverse selection.
Health insurers can't totally
prevent adverse selection, but they can make it less likely by limiting when you can sign up for health insurance to just once per year.
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Adverse selection occurs when the insured deliberately hides certain pertinent information from the insurer.