Consumers Misunderstanding of Health Insurance

Sarah Ahmed, John Beshears, James Choi, Joelle Friedman, Jonathan Kolstad, Suzanne Linck, John List, George Loewenstein, Brigitte Madrain, Barbara McGill, Stacey Sinkula and Kevin Volpp

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Abstract: We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. The second examines whether those insured under a simplified all-copay insurance plan will be more likely to engage in cost-reducing behaviors relative to those insured under a traditional plan with deductibles and coinsurance, and measures consumer preferences between the two plans. The surveys provide strong evidence that consumers do not understand traditional plans and would better understand a simplified plan, but weaker evidence that a simplified plan would have strong appeal to consumers or change their healthcare choices.

Date: 2013
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