Despite a wide variety of empirical methods and data sources, the demand for health care is consistently found to be price inelastic. Although the range of price elasticity estimates is relatively wide, it tends to center on –0.17, meaning that a 1 percent increase in the price of health care will lead to a 0.17 percent reduction in health care expenditures. The price-induced changes in demand for health care can in large part be attributed to changes in the probability of accessing any care rather than to changes in the number of visits once care has been accessed. In addition, the studies consistently find lower levels of demand elasticity at lower levels of cost-sharing.