Tag: COVID-19
At $140 billion, the nation’s unpaid medical bills are the single largest form of past due debt. One thing driving this is no doubt rising deductibles for health insurance. A third of insured Americans said in a survey that it is difficult to pay the deductibles in their employer health insurance plans and in t…
The answer still appears to be “no.” My colleague Anqi Chen and I have argued that older workers – both those ages 55-64 and 65+ – were not hurt disproportionately by the COVID recession. This conclusion was based on some very early data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS). The survey’s rotating interview pattern…
