Objective. To evaluate the role of health plan benefit design and price on consumers' decisions to purchase health insurance in the nongroup market and their choice of plan.Data Sources and Study Setting. Administrative data from the three largest nongroup insurers in California and survey data...

Objective. To estimate the effect of changes in premiums for individual insurance on decisions to purchase individual insurance and how this price response varies among subgroups of the population.Data Source. Survey responses from the Current Population Survey...