Tag: Medicaid
The brief’s key findings are: Workers with employer health insurance may be reluctant to leave their job, a situation known as “job lock.” This study assesses whether public health insurance – specifically, the Medicare Part D drug benefit introduced in 2006 – allows people to leave a job. The analysis focuses on a small segment…
An aging population will put pressure on Medicaid. Although immediate Medicaid cuts are off the table with the failed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, the basic economics underlying the Medicaid program have not changed. Medicaid currently pays for more than half of long-term care expenses (see Figure 1). This outcome reflects the fact that…
