Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
ISSN
0147-0590
Publisher
Cato Institute
Language
en-US
Abstract
In the United States, cost-sharing in health insurance coverage has become the primary mechanism for reducing insurance expenditures and, by extension, maintaining affordable coverage. Cost-sharing involves patients making various out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for their own health care aside from whatever the insurer pays. As a patient’s spending on health care grows month by month in any given year of coverage, she moves through three different “zones” of insurance, from no insurance, to partial insurance, and finally to full insurance.
Recommended Citation
Christopher Robertson,
Scaling and Splitting, New Approaches to Health Insurance
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in
38
Regulation
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(2015).
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