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Please answer the following questions thoroughly:

1. Use the concept of pooling to explain why social health insurance systems dominate private health insurance.

2. What are the health impacts of health insurance? Include evidence that is more supportive of insurance and that is less supportive.

3. Define silver gapping and silver spamming. How do each affect healthcare plans on the ACA marketplace? Are they good for consumers? For insurers?

4. Define P4P. What are 3 ways P4P has been implemented by the ACA?

5. List some possible causes of high cost of healthcare in the United States. Which ones are most directly targeted by increasing the role of the government in health payment and/or provision. How so?

6. List 2 major controversies with current political relevance in health and social insurance. What are the two sides of this issue - give a pro and con of each side.

7. Using the following article: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB10120.html

Thoroughly explain in multiple paragraph forms two or more reasons the paper is and may be correct and two or more reasons the paper may wrong or incorrect. For each pro and con, give a counter argument. For one pro counterargument and one con counter-argument, give a counter-counter argument. That is, you should have two pros, two counters to pros, and one counter-counter to one of the counter arguments to the pros. Same with cons: two cons, two counters, and one counter-counter. Use concepts like utility, theory of insurance, cost-effectiveness, adverse selection, moral hazard, stake-holders, and social movements.