Housing

exploratory

Insurers don't look at the building

Health insurers price age, tobacco and rating area. Building quality is in no model, and the law is only half the reason.

By Christian Huser, in The Built Review · 10 Jun 2026 · 11 min read · 22 named sources

What’s inside
  1. Key findings
  2. UnitedHealth spent 1.2 billion dollars on housing and never asked about the building
  3. The cost side has been priced four times
  4. The law explains half the gap
  5. What the evidence does not measure
  6. Implications
  7. Methodology

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