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Article: The consumer economics of health care coverage: Health services researcher Jennifer Schultz is investigating how and why purchasers of health care insurance make their choices.
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- Human Ecology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Employers and government officials looking for better ways to deliver quality health care while controlling costs might well look to the work of health services researcher Jennifer Schultz, who turns to consumer surveys, cost-benefit analyses, and economic models, among other sources, to inform health policy. Her research has involved analyzing innovations in the purchasing of health care insurance by employers, the decision-making process used by consumers regarding flexible spending accounts, and the implications of federal and state tax policy relative to health care purchasing decisions.
Schultz joined the Department of Policy Analysis and Management as an ...