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Adverse Selection, Genetic Testing and Life Insurance — Lessons from Health Insurance in Australia

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  • James Butler, 2003. "Adverse Selection, Genetic Testing and Life Insurance — Lessons from Health Insurance in Australia," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 10(1), pages 73-82.
    • Handle: RePEc:acb:agenda:v:10:y:2003:i:1:p:73-82
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    1. Frech, Ted & Hopkins, Sandra & MacDonald, Gary, 2000. "The Australian Private Health Insurance Boom: Was It Subsidies Or Liberalised?," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series qt0jn5w4c1, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara.
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    3. A. J. Culyer & J. P. Newhouse (ed.), 2000. "Handbook of Health Economics," Handbook of Health Economics, Elsevier, edition 1, volume 1, number 1.
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    5. Rhema Vaithianathan, 2001. "An Economic Analysis of the Private Health Insurance Incentive Act (1998)," CEPR Discussion Papers 427, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
    6. H.E. Frech Iii & Sandra Hopkins & Garry Macdonald, 2003. "The Australian Private Health Insurance Boom: Was It Subsidies Or Liberalised Regulation?," Economic Papers, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 22(1), pages 58-64, March.
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    1. Patricia Apps & Ray Rees & Elizabeth Savage, 2004. "The Economics of a Two Tier Health System: A Fairer Medicare?," CEPR Discussion Papers 478, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University.
    2. Michael Hoy & Michael Ruse, 2005. "Regulating Genetic Information in Insurance Markets," Risk Management and Insurance Review, American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 8(2), pages 211-237, September.
    3. Ian McAuley, 2005. "Private Health Insurance: Still Muddling Through," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 12(2), pages 159-178.

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