Chandra, Amitabh; Gruber, Jonathan; McKnight, Robin - 2007
Patient cost-sharing for primary care and prescription drugs is designed to reduce the prevalence of moral hazard in … deficiencies by studying a policy change that raised patient cost-sharing for retired public employees in California. We find that … presumably efficacious: those with a chronic disease. Finally, we find that the savings from increased cost-sharing accrue mostly …