Health Plan Choice and Information about Out-of-Pocket Costs: An Experimental Analysis

• Main Authors: Michael Schoenbaum (Author), Mark Spranca (Author), Marc Elliott (Author), Jay Bhattacharya (Author), Pamela Farley Short (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2001-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Many consumers are offered two or more employer-sponsored health insurance plans, and competition among health plans for subscribers is promoted as a mechanism for balancing health care costs and quality. Yet consumers may not receive the information necessary to make informed health plan choices. T...