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This chapter aims to motivate the need for health insurance, as a tool to transfer the financial consequences of temporary or permanent alterations of individual health conditions, which can cause either health care-related costs or a negative impact on income because of reduced working capacity, or both.
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Pitacco, E. (2014). The Individual Perspective: The Need for Health Insurance. In: Health Insurance. EAA Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12235-9_1
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