Once covered, forever covered: The actuarial challenges of the Belgian private health insurance system
The Belgian Law of 20 July 2007 has drastically changed the Belgian private health insurance sector by making individual contracts lifelong with level premiums. The goal of the Law is to ensure the accessibility of supplementary health coverage in order to protect policyholders from discrimination and exclusion, essentially when these operate on the basis of age. Due to the unpredictable nature of medical inflation risk, the legislator introduced a medical index together with a specific updating mechanism, which aim at establishing standardized and fair premium adjustments across the sector. T... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26529859 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/214860 |