Journal of Political Economy, 103 (June 1995) 445-473. None of us has health insurance, really. You get sick, you lose your job or get divorced, and now you have a preexisting condition. This paper shows how to implement “premium increase insurance” that gets around the problem. If you get sick, you get a lump sum that allows you to pay higher insurance premiums. It allows a private-market solution to the main problem of health insurance attracting regulation.
“Time-Consistent Health Insurance”
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