(Bloomberg View) –Most Americans know they have a personal credit score, and many know where to find it. Few know they also have a personal health-risk score.
If these were better known, and better constructed, health insurance markets in the U.S. would work more smoothly.
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Commercial health insurance plans, as well as Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs, generate risk scores every year for most of the people they cover.
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