Direct and indirect costs of care influence patients' health choices and the ability to
implement those choices. Despite the significant impact of care costs on patients' health and …

Consumers in private health insurance markets are highly inertial. The literature has
repeatedly found consumers are willing to pay thousands of dollars to keep their health plan …

In several countries, citizens are expected to be critical consumers when choosing a health
insurance policy. However, there are indications that citizens do not always have the …

Importance The Affordable Care Act (ACA) sought to improve access and affordability of
health insurance. Although most ACA policies targeted childless adults, the extent to which …

We studied the impact of Affordable Care Act navigator programs on health insurance
coverage, using the 80 percent cut in program funding under the Trump administration as a …

Objective We investigated patient experiences with medication-and test-related cost
conversations with healthcare providers to identify their preferences for future informatics …

Background There are several indications that citizens in the Netherlands struggle to make
critical, well-considered decisions about which insurance policy best fits their needs and …

Importance Ten years after the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, patients
continue to report insurance-related barriers to specialty mental health care. Objectives To …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a scale to determine the
consumer's level of decision-making self-efficacy for a high-involved service purchase …

This study investigated why individuals change their health insurance plans, factors that
influence their health insurance plan choices and information sources used to compare and …