Health insurance and the demand for medical care: evidence from a randomized experiment.
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Summary
This work estimates how cost sharing, the portion of the bill the patient pays, affects the demand for medical services and rejects the hypothesis that less favorable coverage of outpatient services increases total expenditure.
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- article
- Published
- 1987-06-01
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- 2,196
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- 122
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Keywords
Price elasticity of demand, Economics, Randomized experiment, Health insurance, Health care
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