Tag: health outcome

Senior Healthcare Assistance in a Home

Abstract The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has greatly increased the proportion of non-elderly Americans with health insurance. One justification for the ACA is that improving individuals’ access to health insurance would improve their health outcomes, mostly by increasing the probability that they have a regular source of care. Another is that increasing the availability of…

Their finances are in the green

Abstract Given concerns about the depletion of the Social Security Trust Fund, policymakers are considering several proposals to improve the financial sustainability of the program, including some that would lower benefits over time.  The extent to which reductions in Social Security benefits impact individual health and well-being is not well understood.  Using data from a…