Alternatives for Modeling Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiments.

Assesses the ability of various cost-sharing methods to consistently replicate certain RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) results. Provides a basic explanation of elasticities and their health insurance applications; reviews some of the key findings from the RAND HIE; and discusses how best to r...

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Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2006.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Health insurance. Medical economics. Social sciences > Research. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Assesses the ability of various cost-sharing methods to consistently replicate certain RAND Health Insurance Experiment (HIE) results. Provides a basic explanation of elasticities and their health insurance applications; reviews some of the key findings from the RAND HIE; and discusses how best to replicate HIE results using elasticities, induction factors, and the cubic formula. Includes tables and graphs.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.