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The Affordable Care Act And Women’S Self-Employment In The United States, Margaret Blume-Kohout
The Affordable Care Act And Women’S Self-Employment In The United States, Margaret Blume-Kohout
Economics Faculty Publications
The United States’ Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 improved and expanded availability of non-group health insurance. Previous studies have shown that women in the US workforce value health insurance more highly than men do. Because prior to the ACA self-employed individuals did not have guaranteed access to affordable health insurance coverage, women’s relatively lower rate of self-employment may partly have reflected their greater “job lock” due to employer-based health insurance. This article employs nationally representative survey data for 2009–18 and a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference modeling approach and finds that unmarried women’s probability of self-employment increased by 1.2 percentage points in …
"The Healing Of America" And The Next Steps For American Healthcare, Carter A. Hanson
"The Healing Of America" And The Next Steps For American Healthcare, Carter A. Hanson
Student Publications
An exploration of three healthcare systems—France, United Kingdom, and Canada—and what can be learned for them. Elements from the three national systems are combined into a proposal for reforming the American healthcare system into a devolved single-payer system.
Why Not Fix It?, William H. Lane
Why Not Fix It?, William H. Lane
English Faculty Publications
Have you felt the pinch of rising health care costs this year? If not, maybe you haven't actually needed to see a doctor or pay for a prescription. Even those of us who are lucky enough to be "covered" at work have noticed rapidly rising deductibles and copays - and shrinking networks of providers. Employers, facing a big, one-year increase in insurance costs, naturally enough go shopping for a new plan. But the big savings with a new plan often mean a big effective pay cut for everyone who's covered under it when employee contributions, deductibles and copays all rise …