Health care costs : the consequences of increased cost sharing / Charles E. Phelps.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phelps, Charles E.

Series:

R (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care, Cost of--United States.

Medical care, Cost of.

Health insurance--United States.

Health insurance.

Medical care--United States--Cost control.

Medical care.

Cost Control.

Deductibles and Coinsurance.

Health Services--economics.

Insurance, Health--Economics.

Medical Subjects:

Cost Control.

Deductibles and Coinsurance.

Health Services--economics.

Insurance, Health--Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 44 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, [1982]

Summary:

This report analyzes the possible distributional consequences of several government policies for controlling health care costs. Drawing on the results of RAND's Health Insurance Study, it evaluates the potential savings from policies designed to increase cost sharing--deductibles and copayments--in both government and employer financed health insurance programs. It then examines how the cost of realizing these savings is distributed among major actors in the health care system--patients, doctors, hospitals, suppliers, insurers, and state and federal governments. The study assesses consequences of specific proposals to increase income taxation of employer financed insurance programs and to increase copayments in Medicaid.

Notes:

"November 1982."