A Design for a Health Insurance Experiment

Joseph P. Newhouse

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1974Published in: Inquiry, v. 11, no. 1, Mar. 1974, p. 5-27

This paper discusses the design of the experimental portion of the Health Insurance Study. The author considers the objectives of the experiment and places them in the context of existing knowledge about health care financing.

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  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1974
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: EP-197403-03

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