Employees need basic guidance in health plan selection

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Does giving employees multiple choices of health plans drive competition and empower them pick plans offering the greatest value and highest quality care –the theory underlying the Affordable Care Act and many employers’ benefit plan designs?

Don’t count on it, concludes an academic study just published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Richard Stolz
Principal, Stolz Communications

Richard Stolz is a freelance writer based in Rockville, Md.


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