Tag: health insurance
The brief’s key findings are: Long-term care is the major uninsured expense for most retirees. CLASS is a new, voluntary, national program designed to: alleviate the need for families to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid; reduce the burden of care on families; and offset a bias towards institutionalization. The primary challenge to CLASS is…
The brief’s key findings are: An expansion in the Veterans Administration health care system offers insights on how health insurance reform may affect older workers’ employment decisions. The VA reform provided free coverage outside of employment, causing older male workers to work less by increasing their income and reducing job lock. More-educated workers used suc…
