Insurance Co-pay Elimination Equals Adherence?

Improving care coordination is a cornerstone of health reform. That's why this is a watershed paper. This is a claim by the Editor-in-C...



Improving care coordination is a
cornerstone of health reform. That's why this is a watershed paper.
This is a claim by the Editor-in-Chief David B. Nash. This article
describes a strategy known as value-based insurance design (VBID)
that supposedly reduces financial barriers to medication access. The
major fault I find with the study is that it is from self-reports
from the patients.

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