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Older workers choose managed care, study finds
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, April 12th, 2004
That employees tend to stick with the type of insurance they select early on in their career may be a factor in the findings.
Gail Jensen and M.A. Morrisey at the Institute for Gerontology and Department of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, investigated "whether older workers and early retirees avoid managed care plans and to explore whether health plan choices are linked to the health status of workers or their spouses."
They published their findings in the journal Gerontologist (Are healthier...
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