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    Am Econ Rev. 1987 Jun;77(3):251-77.

    Health insurance and the demand for medical care: evidence from a randomized experiment.

    Manning WG, Newhouse JP, Duan N, Keeler EB, Leibowitz A, Marquis MS.

    We estimate how cost sharing, the portion of the bill the patient pays, affects the demand for medical services. The data come from a randomized experiment. A catastrophic insurance plan reduces expenditures 31 percent relative to zero out-of-pocket price. The price elasticity is approximately -0.2. We reject the hypothesis that less favorable coverage of outpatient services increases total expenditure (for example, by deterring preventive care or inducing hospitalization).

    PMID: 10284091 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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