"Choose the Plan That’s Right for You": Choice Devolution as Class-Biased Institutional Change in U.S. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

This study examines the distributional consequences of U.S. employers' efforts to devolve responsibility for managing their employees' medical insurance risk. The logic of consumer choice has increasingly come to dominate insurance benefit design, requiring that employees learn to be their...

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Main Authors: Adam Goldstein, James Franklin Wharam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for Sociological Science 2022-05-01
Series:Sociological Science
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Online Access:https://sociologicalscience.com/articles-v9-10-221/