Paying on the Margin for Medical Care: Evidence from Breast Cancer Treatments
We present a simple graphical framework to illustrate the potential welfare gains from a "top-up" health insurance policy requiring patients to pay the incremental price for more expensive treatment options. We apply this framework to breast cancer treatments, where lumpectomy with radiati...
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American Economic Association
2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106819 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6684 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4364-1505 |