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The Effects of Offering Health Plan Choice within Employment-Based Purchasing
M. Kate Bundorf, available through National Bureau of Economic Research Link to more items from this source
Oct. 2, 2003
Working paper. Excerpt: Over the last two decades, employers have increasingly offered workers a choice of health plans.... I find that greater availability of choice was associated with a reduction in the premium of employer-sponsored coverage and an increase in the proportion of workers covered ... [but the] results are not consistent with the availability of choice leading to lower premiums through greater competition among plans for workers.

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