Tag: access to healthcare
The brief’s key findings are: Numerous studies have examined the impact of Massachusetts’ landmark 2006 health care reform, the basis for the national Affordable Care Act. The results suggest that the Massachusetts reform has largely succeeded by: reducing uninsurance rates; improving health care access and health outcomes; and inducing more firms to offer coverage, without…
Introduction Most of the discussion of retirement security focuses on declining Social Security replacement rates, modest 401(k) balances, the low level of saving, and longer life expectancy. Rising health care costs, which seem too amorphous to incorporate into numerical examples, are often characterized as a “wildcard” that could undermine the best laid plans. This brief…
