Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate.

This detailed and meticulously researched study is one of the first of its kind: its results suggest tha...