The Health Insurance Study
Experimentation and Health Financing Policy
Published in: Inquiry, v. 11, no. 1, Mar. 1974, p. 28-39
Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1974
A major component of the Health Insurance Study is the implementation of the Health Insurance Experiment, a large-scale experimental field research project. This article discusses the empirical issues that arise in the attempt to design a financing system to implement the policy objectives determined by the political process.
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