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Is The Informed-Choice Policy Approach Appropriate For Medicare Beneficiaries?
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Current policy approaches rely on Medicare beneficiaries to make informed choices about their care and their coverage. It is assumed that with information to explain the options, beneficiaries will be able to make choices that fit their individual needs and preferences. However, little is known about decision-making skill in the older population. General evidence suggests that older adults seek less information and exhibit less sophisticated reasoning in making decisions.1 Further, we do not know whether beneficiaries welcome having more choices or view them as a burden.
Making decisions requires skills in several areas: being able to correctly interpret data; weighting
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Dependent variable.Predictor variables.
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Predicting comprehension skill.Delegating health plan decisions.Estimating Medicare population with difficulty using comparative information.
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Possible policy directions.
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