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Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing (open access)

Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing

This paper examines the health services and economics literature to learn what is known about the effects of patient cost-sharing (that is, annual deductibles, coinsurance, copayments, and out-of-pocket maximurns) on patients’ use of health care services, on plan expenditures, and on patients’ health outcomes.
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction (open access)

Biological Components of Substance Abuse and Addiction

This paper describes biological contributing factors to substance abuse and addiction. The second document being produced by this study will discuss the complex interactions of biochemical, physiological, psychological, and sociological factors leading to substance abuse and addiction.
Date: September 1993
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library