Number: RL33296
Title: Alternatives for Modeling Results from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment
Authors: Chris L. Peterson, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report assesses the ability of the three methods to consistently replicate certain RAND Health Insurance Experiment results. Because health care and people's responsiveness to its costs may have changed in the decades since the HIE's implementation, the method that best replicates the HIE results may not in fact best represent current responsiveness to health care cost-sharing. Whether people's responsiveness has changed is difficult to know without another experimental study like the HIE. However, on the specific question of which method is best for replicating the HIE results, this report points to the cubic formula.
Pages: 44
Date: March 6, 2006