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Mon, Apr 16, 2007 -- 9:00 AM

Health Insurance


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Is health care an "insurable risk"? The show analyzes the risk model underlying health insurance coverage. How do insurance companies define "risk," and how does it affect access to health care?

Host: Michael Krasny

Guests:

  • Cindy Ehnes, director of the California Department of Managed Health Care
  • Dr. Richard Quint, health sciences clinical professor emeritus at UCSF's Department of Pediatrics and former director of the Pediatric Rehabilitation and Meningomyelocele Programs at UCSF
  • Hank Greely, Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
  • Jay Bhattacharya, assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford University Medical School

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