High-Deductible Plans: When Spending Less on Health Care Isn't Always Better (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)

This column is a collaboration between KHN and Jonathan Cohn, Senior Editor of The New Republic.

Conservatives think traditional health insurance provides too much financial protection from medical expenses. They also think that the Affordable Care Act will make this situation worse. That's one reason they want to repeal it.

Redesigning insurance in a way that actually lowers spending and, by the way, promotes good health, is a lot more complicated than merely giving people 'more skin in the game,' as conservatives like to put it. A new study by researchers affiliated with the Rand Institute suggests why.  

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