Americans live in a political, social, and historical context that values personal freedom and
choice above all else, an emphasis that has been amplified by contemporary psychology …

People often make decisions in health care that are not in their best interest, ranging from
failing to enroll in health insurance to which they are entitled, to engaging in extremely …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

Choice is what enables each person to pursue precisely those objects and activities that
best satisfy his or her own preferences within the limits of his or her resources. This chapter …

This paper presents a set of indicators to assess health care system performance. It also
presents new comparative data on health care policies and institutions for OECD countries …

Consumers need information to compare alternatives for markets to function efficiently.
Recognizing this, public policies often pair competition with easy access to comparative …

This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners,
program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage disease and make large …

Abstract Under Medicare Part D, senior citizens choose prescription drug insurance offered
by numerous private insurers. We examine nonpoor enrollees' actions in 2006 and 2007 …

We conducted a meta-analysis of age differences in predecisional information search (N=
1,304) that suggests that aging is associated with a small but significant decrease in …

The proliferation of Medicare Advantage plans has given Medicare enrollees more choices,
but these could be overwhelming for some, especially for those with impaired decision …