TY  - JOUR
T1  - MOre health care is not necessarily better health care—reply
AU  - Kullgren JT, Lieu TA
Y1  - 2011/06/27
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.269
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1124
EP  - 1124
VL  - 171
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Previous studies suggest that cost-sharing affects both essential and less-essential care. The RAND Health Insurance Experiment referenced by Dr Erlebacher showed that patients exposed to high levels of cost sharing reduced their use of highly-effective care and less-effective care in similar proportions.1- 2 A more recent study by Hibbard et al3 found that new enrollees in a consumer-directed health plan (CDHP) reduced their use of high-priority office visits as often as their use of low-priority office visits.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.269
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.269
ER  -