Tag: health insurance

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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…

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Abstract Cash income offers an incomplete picture of the resources available to finance household consumption.  Most American families are covered by an insurance plan that pays for some or all of the health care they consume.  Only a comparatively small percentage of families pay for the full cost of this insurance out of their cas…