Tag: health insurance
Hercules sculpture, Florence, Italy. Medical bills are leaving “a lasting imprint on families’ balance sheets,” JP Morgan Chase concludes from its recent analysis of the anonymous checking and credit card account activity of some 250,000 bank customers. With little available cash on hand, 53 percent of these families prepare to pay large, one-time medical expenses…
The brief’s key findings are: In the 1990s, most states adopted policies limiting the ability of health insurers to charge higher premiums for older workers in small firms. The question is whether these changes made such workers more attractive to employers. The analysis suggests the changes had little effect for older workers in small firms:…
