Housing

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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 publishes nothing on building quality in its own claims
  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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