This comprehensive and sometimes controversial book provides an essential survey of the key issues in health insurance. It is a valuable read for students and teachers of Business Studies as well as health professionals of all kinds.

List of tables, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, PART I. The ethics of underwriting, 1. The freedom to underwrite, 2. Freedom within limits: underwriting and ethics, 3. Genetics and ethics: the scientific background, 4. Genetics and insurance, 5. HIV and insurance, 6. Disability and insurance, PART II. Public or private provision?, 7. Ethical issues in social insurance for health, 8. More private health insurance is desirable and inevitable, 9. Equal access to health care: a problematic ideal, 10. Public or private? Insurance and pensions, 11. Assurance, pensioning and long-term care, Index