Shrime, M. G, Weinstein, M. C., Hammitt, James K., Cohen, Jessica and Salomon, Joshua (2018) Trading Bankruptcy for Health: A Discrete-Choice Experiment. Value in Health, 21 (1). pp. 95-104.

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.