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Health Insurance Tax Credits And Health Insurance Coverage Of Low-Income Single Mothers, Merve Cebi, Stephen A. Woodbury Apr 2009

Health Insurance Tax Credits And Health Insurance Coverage Of Low-Income Single Mothers, Merve Cebi, Stephen A. Woodbury

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Retiree Health Benefits And Retirement, James Marton, Stephen A. Woodbury Oct 2006

Retiree Health Benefits And Retirement, James Marton, Stephen A. Woodbury

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Retiree Health Benefits And Retirement, James Marton, Stephen A. Woodbury Jul 2006

Retiree Health Benefits And Retirement, James Marton, Stephen A. Woodbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

Employer-provided health benefit coverage for workers who retire before age 65 has fallen over the last decade. We examine a cohort of male workers from the Health and Retirement Survey to examine questions about the dynamics of retiree health benefits and the relationship between retiree health benefits and retirement behavior, which is important for the debate over increasing health coverage for older Americans without reducing work incentives. On dynamics, we find that between 1992 and 1996, 24 percent of full-time workers who had retiree health benefits lost their coverage, while 15 percent of full-time workers who lacked coverage gained it. …


Refundable Tax Credits For Health Insurance: The Sensitivity Of Simulated Impacts To Assumed Behavior, David W. Emmons, Eva Madly, Stephen A. Woodbury Jul 2005

Refundable Tax Credits For Health Insurance: The Sensitivity Of Simulated Impacts To Assumed Behavior, David W. Emmons, Eva Madly, Stephen A. Woodbury

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

We replicate and extend a simulation model developed by Jonathan Gruber with the goals of illuminating Gruber's modeling of health insurance coverage under a tax credit and examining the sensitivity of the results to changes in the model's key parameters. The replications suggest that a refundable tax credit of $1,000 for a single individual or $2,000 for a family for private health insurance would reduce the number of uninsured individuals by between 17.5 and 28 percent and require new government expenditures of between $16.6 and $44 billion, of which about $7.4-$9.7 billion would be for coverage of previously uninsured individuals. …


Refundable Tax Credits For Health Insurance, David W. Emmons, Eva Madly, Stephen A. Woodbury Jul 2005

Refundable Tax Credits For Health Insurance, David W. Emmons, Eva Madly, Stephen A. Woodbury

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Political Economy Of Health Care Reforms, Huizhong Zhou Editor Jan 2001

The Political Economy Of Health Care Reforms, Huizhong Zhou Editor

Upjohn Press

A leading group of health care economists propose solutions to problems related to Medicare, managed care, health insurance, coverage for the uninsured, and the role of tax policy in health care.


The Economics Of Medicare Reform, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Thomas Robert Saving Oct 2000

The Economics Of Medicare Reform, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Thomas Robert Saving

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Economics Of Medicare Reform, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Thomas Robert Saving Jan 2000

The Economics Of Medicare Reform, Andrew J. Rettenmaier, Thomas Robert Saving

Upjohn Press

The authors propose a means for preserving Medicare as we know it. After detailing the reasons for Medicare's financial troubles, they present a cohort-based financing plan for Medicare that represents a fundamental departure from the generation transfer method currently used.


Improving Access To Health Care: What Can The States Do?, John Henry Goddeeris Editor, Andrew J. Hogan Editor Jan 1992

Improving Access To Health Care: What Can The States Do?, John Henry Goddeeris Editor, Andrew J. Hogan Editor

Upjohn Press

Health care cost increases may seem under control but the issue of access remains a serious problem. This text features a dozen essays addressing that issue from the states' perspective.