Essentials of Health Policy and Law 2nd Edition by Joel Teitelbaum,Sara Wilensky

Exercise 4

The critical intersection between health care and health insurance as exemplified by the Davila decision leads to an important question: Is it reasonable to treat a healthcare coverage decision as having nothing to do with health care itself? Put another way, given the expense of h ealth c are t oday, d o y ou b elieve t hat i ndividuals and families can afford necessary health care if there is no third party responsible for covering at least some of the cost?