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SUBMITTER: Sommers R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5548298 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sommers Roseanna R Goold Susan Dorr SD McGlynn Elizabeth A EA Pearson Steven D SD Danis Marion M
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20130201 2
Having patients weigh costs when making medical decisions has been proposed as a way to rein in health care spending. We convened twenty-two focus groups of people with insurance to examine their willingness to discuss health care costs with clinicians and consider costs when deciding among nearly comparable clinical options. We identified the following four barriers to patients' taking cost into account: a preference for what they perceive as the best care, regardless of expense; inexperience w ...[more]