We explore the feasibility of catastrophic health insurance established in conjunction with individual health accounts (IHAs). Under this plan, the employer establishes both a high-deductible health insurance plan and an IHA. Employee health care costs below the deductible are then paid out of...

The goal of this paper is to develop methods to identify and quantify the importance of the factors contributing to the wide differences in health care expenditures among employer-provided health plans. Our hope is that understanding the reasons for cost differences will direct more focused...

This volume, the fourth to result from a remarkably productive collaboration between the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Japan Center for Economic Research, presents a selection of thirteen high-caliber papers addressing issues in the employment practices, labor markets, and health,...