Employee choice of consumer-driven health insurance in a multiplan, multiproduct setting

Health Services Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4 II, 2004, Pages 1091-1112

  Parente, Stephen T ^a   Feldman, Roger ^b   Christianson, Jon B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse selection; Consumer driven health plans; Health insurance; Health plan choice

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER; EMPLOYEE; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; PHYSICIAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142727013     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2004.00275.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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