The Cadillac tax and tax efficiency
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A few ideas on expanding LTC insurance
Ron Lieber in Bucks blog hits the nail on the head regarding Long Term Care (LTC) policy: Pair the Class Act news with an essay in the Sunday Review section of The Times by Jane Gross on how Medicare ultimately fails so many elderly people, and you start to get a sense of the size […]The post A few
关于未保险的年度人口普查报告已经发布。 It’s the usual bad news: In 2010, the percentage was 16.3%, compared to 16.1% in 2009. Among the non-elderly, 18.4% of individuals were uninsured in 2010, which is not statistically different from the nonelderly uninsured rate of 18.2% in 2009. During 2010, 49.9 million people we
Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program, by Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber (AER) We evaluate the choices of elders across their insurance options under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plan, using a unique dataset of prescription dru
Declining coverage from employer sponsored insurance
The RWJF has released a report documenting the change in emloyer sponsored health insurance coverage across the US: A report from the State Health Access Data Assistance Center (SHADAC) at the University of Minnesota shows the percentage of nonelderly Americans who get their health insurance through
