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In the face of rising health care costs, a new study has found that older adults were less likely to identify the plan that minimized their total annual cost and were likely to mistakenly think they had chosen the lowest-cost plan. The study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation? Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, is currently available online, and will be published in the August 2009 issue of Health Services Research.

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