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Business, 24.11.2021 08:10 darksky4658

Consider a health insurance market. The market has many insurers so that each insurance company offers insurance at the fair insurance premium. Each consumer has utility function, U (X) = square root of X and has an initial wealth of $100. Consumers have access to a (magical) gym that reduces their probability of needing to go to the doctor from 90% to 10%. A gym membership costs $10. A trip to the doctor costs $75. Suppose insurance companies charge the fair insurance premium which assumes all consumers go to the gym. This fair insurance premium is $___and the insurance company makes a profit of $per consumer. Suppose insurance companies continue to charge the fair insurance premium that assumes all consumers go to the gym, but now charges a copay of $13 for a doctor's visit. The insurance company now makes a profit of $___per consumer. By implementing a copay, the insurance company___the___problem.

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