How Much Choice Is Too Much? The Case of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit
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How much choice is too much? The case of the Medicare prescription drug benefit.
OBJECTIVE To study the impact of the number of choices and age on measures of performance in choosing a Medicare prescription drug plan. DATA SOURCE/STUDY SETTING One hundred ninty-two healthy individuals age 18 and older, half age 65 or older, in Claremont, California. STUDY DESIGN Participants were randomly assigned to 3, 10, or 20 hypothetical drug plans and asked four factual questions....
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0017-9124,1475-6773
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2009.00981.x