What is the best way to ensure that individuals with pre-existing health conditions have access to affordable insurance coverage?

a. Place everyone in the same risk pool and charge everyone, sick and healthy, the same community-rated premium.
b. Place those with pre-existing conditions into separate risk pools, charging them risk-rated premiums, and provide taxpayer financed subsidies to make the coverage affordable.
c. Mandate that every provider accept individuals with pre-existing conditions on a pro bono basis and subsidize the cost of their care by charging higher prices to those with insurance.
d. Allow those individuals with pre-existing conditions to purchase insurance based on their own health status.


b. Place those with pre-existing conditions into separate risk pools, charging them risk-rated premiums, and provide taxpayer financed subsidies to make the coverage affordable.

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Average total cost is __________ divided by the number of units of output.

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