Tag: healthcare
Abstract The increasing cost of employer contributions for employee health insurance reduces the percentage of compensation that is subject to the payroll tax. Rising insurance contributions can also have a more subtle effect on the Social Security tax base because they influence the distribution of money wages. Workers bear most of the burden of employer…
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…
