is more dubious; response to financial incentives such as insurance is exacerbated; the social consequences and external …

This chapter reviews topics related to the demand for health insurance, including the question of how choice of health … insurance should be structured for consumers. After the first section summarizes some of the institutional features of health … insurance in high- and middle-income countries, a second section synthesizes the normative and empirical literature on demand …

This chapter summarizes research in behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in … done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those … consumers leave lots of money on the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both …