Tag: Medicare

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…

More Americans have health insurance, but they’ve also become increasingly worried over the past two years about how to pay for every aspect of their medical care. While the majority of insured adults still can afford their health care, the minority who say it’s “difficult” to pay their monthly premiums, doctor and prescription copayments, and…