Abstract:
:Determinants of health insurance choices are estimated from a logit model and data from the National Medical Care Expenditure Survey. Employees offered a choice between traditional health insurance plans chose the high option and the low option in roughly equal numbers. About a quarter of the employees who were offered enrollment in an HMO selected the HMO in preference to a traditional plan. Prices figured significantly in both types of decisions, with the choice between traditional plans about twice as sensitive to prices as the decision to enroll in an HMO. Comprehensive hospital benefits and superior catastrophic protection also appeared to be important factors in the choice of health insurance plans.
journal_name
J Health Econjournal_title
Journal of health economicsauthors
Short PF,Taylor AKdoi
10.1016/0167-6296(89)90023-4subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-12-01 00:00:00pages
293-311issue
3eissn
0167-6296issn
1879-1646pii
0167-6296(89)90023-4journal_volume
8pub_type
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