AcademyHealth: People are bad at choosing health plans, part 2

I concluded a prior post, which focused on Medicare, with two stylized facts I claimed generalized beyond Medicare: (1) people are bad at choosing plans; (2) providing easy access to cost comparison information makes them better. My new post on the AcademyHealth blog backs up that claim, as does another I will post in the future.

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Austin Frakt, PhD, is co-Editor-in-Chief of The Incidental Economist. His day job is Associate Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also a Professor with the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the Boston University’s School of Public Health, a Principal Research Scientist with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Services Research.

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