What Kind of Health Insurance Do Health Economists Buy?

PHILADELPHIA, April 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Perhaps it was perverse curiosity that made us wonder how the academic specialists who study health reform's new insurance models actually handle their OWN health insurance needs. They must know more than the rest of us, right? So, the LDI Health Economist, the new online magazine of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, put the question to some of the country's top health economists. See the full story at http://ldihealtheconomist.com/he000022.shtml

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The Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) is a 45-year research center within The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. It coordinates the research of more than 190 senior fellows investigating how health care is organized, financed, managed and delivered throughout the United States. See http://ldi.upenn.edu

The LDIhealthEconomist.com site is a journalism-based publication that reports on healthcare-related policy issues as viewed through the eyes, experiences and findings of the country's health service research scholars.

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Contact: Hoag Levins, 215-746-8601, [email protected]

SOURCE Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania