This study assesses impacts of a California program in which certain Medicaid beneficiaries were required to make small payments for (previously free) out-of-hospital services. This "copayment" requirement decreased physician visit demand by 8 percent, increased hospital service demand by 17...

The Reagan administration has again proposed in 1984 to limit the tax exemption on health-insurance premiums. Objectives of the proposal are to curtail rising health costs by reducing insurance coverage-and hence medical-care use-and to raise revenues to offset the large federal deficit. The...