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Choosing health insurance is so complicated, 23% of workers with only two choices picked the worse one

  • Written by Trevor Collier, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Dayton
Choosing health insurance is so complicated, 23% of workers with only two choices picked the worse oneEven a binary choice can be hard.rhyman007/E+ via Getty Images

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Almost a quarter of employees faced with the choice of two employer-sponsored health care plans picked the one that left them worse off financially, even though they offered the same non-cost benefits,...

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