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Trading Bankruptcy for Health: A Discrete-Choice Experiment
January 2018
January 2018
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Abstract
Although nearly two-third of bankruptcy in the United States is medical in origin,
a common assumption is that individuals facing a potentially lethal disease opt for
cure at any cost. This assumption has never been tested, and knowledge of how the
American population values a trade-off between cure and bankruptcy is unknown.