A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse

This volume contains studies of one particular category of risky situations, namely, those involving highly negative consequences with low probabilities. Situat

Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adu

Is it possible that the insurance and reinsurance industries cannot handle a major catastrophe? Ten years ago, the notion that the overall cost of a single cata