Since the war the relative number of aged persons with income from employment has declined, while the proportion with income from social insurance benefits has increased. Despite the fact that social insurance benefits yield a lower average income than do earnings, the averaged aged person's income in 1952 was higher in both current dollars and dollars of stable purchasing power than it was in ...

The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears as random shocks to individual utility functions, interacts with individual search and labor supply decisions and triggers movements across labor force states. The employed worker prefers absence for sufficiently severe sickness and the unemployed worker may prefer nonparticip...

The Affordable Care Act broadens and strengthens the health insurance benefits available to consumers by requiring insurers to provide coverage of a minimum set of medical services known as "essential health benefits." Federal officials implemented this reform using transitional policies that left many important decisions to the states, while pledging to reassess that approach in time for the 2...

Unlike children in most other economically developed countries, children in the United States are not guaranteed health insurance coverage. Indeed, many U.S. children have no health insurance coverage at all. Their lack of coverage restricts their access to health care services: uninsured children have fewer physician visits per year than children with insurance and are less likely to have a us...

The ability to correctly code and document for purposes of physician reimbursement has become an increasingly essential part of long-term care (LTC) practice. As was pointed out by Stone and Tarnove in a recent article, “the complexity and nuances of these codes have cost physicians huge sums of money and actually have driven many excellent, caring physicians to stop providing services to our n...

honey contains a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants. the vitamins found in honey include niacin, riboflavin and pantothenic acid; minerals present include calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium and zinc. in addition honey contains a variety of flavonoids and phenolic acids which act as antioxidants, scavenging and eliminating free radica...

Political statements about the relationship between the economy and health intensify during economic downturns and fade in times of prosperity. Population health researchers share this cyclical interest in that the numbers of peer-reviewed publications on this topic increase during and immediately after recessions. In this issue of the Journal, Cylus et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;180(1):45-52) f...

The cost of expanding health insurance coverage increases when people who would otherwise purchase insurance obtain public coverage. This paper investigates the effects of one of the first efforts to target insurance benefits to the most needy, the 1982 medicare as secondary payer (MSP) provisions. We find strong evidence of low compliance with the MSP both in terms of medical bill payments (pa...

The effect of unemployment benefits (UB) on the behavior of unemployed individuals has been extensively studied in the literature. In contrast, we still know little about how UB affect the behavior of employed workers. This paper aims at filling this gap, using job-to-job (JTJ) transitions as the main outcome of analysis. The theoretical framework developed in the paper indicates that UB should...

Hagadorn and co-authors (HKMM) invite the interpretation that most of the large increase in unemployment since 2007 can be blamed on the rising generosity of unemployment insurance benefits, leaving little to blame on the financial crisis. But the paper does not make that claim. And the claim is incorrect. The right way to explain the claims of the the paper is that a policy of extending UI ben...