Purchasing Health Insurance
» Purchasing Health Insurance, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2007
If respondent personally shopped for health insurance in the last three years.
3a. In hours, about how much time did you spend shopping? For example, how many hours did you spend learning about different plans, analyzing options, making inquiries, determining employee needs, etc.? An estimate is fine.
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two hours or less | 26 | ||
| 2 | Three or four hours | 17 | ||
| 3 | Five to eight hours | 24 | ||
| 4 | Nine to 16 hours | 18 | ||
| 5 | > 16 hours | 12 | ||
| 6 | (DK/Refuse) | 3 | ||
| Total (%) | 100 | |||
| N | 172 | |||
Notes: Twelve (12) percent of small employers who personally shopped for a health insurance plan in the last three years spent more than 16 hours doing so (Q#3a).
