Can Defined Contribution Health Insurance Reduce Cost Growth? - Len M. Nichols

Posted by CHPRE Staff Publications Saturday, June 1st, 2002

Focus:

This Issue Brief focuses on one key question: Can a widespread shift to defined contribution health plan arrangements (DC health) lower the growth rate of health care costs? The answer to this question is in two parts: (1) What are the root causes of health care cost inflation? (2) What will be the price responsiveness of workers with structured incentives to choose among health plans?

“Can Defined Contribution Health Insurance Reduce Cost Growth?” Employee Benefit Research Institute Issue Brief # 246 (June 2002).

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