HEALTH INSURANCE EXCHANGE: This Issue Brief examines issues related to managed competition and the use of a health insurance exchange for the purpose of addressing cost, quality, and access to health care services. It discusses issues that must be addressed when designing an exchange in order to reform the health insurance market and also examines state efforts at health reform that use an exch...

OBJECTIVE To document the process used in assessing the public health impact of proposed health insurance benefit mandates in California as part of the California Health Benefits Review Program (CHBRP) to serve as a guide for other states interested in incorporating a public health impact analysis into their state mandated benefit review process. BACKGROUND As of September 2004, of the 26 sta...

Using a sample of 7,734 employed adults from the National Medical Expenditure Survey, this research compares the sources of health insurance coverage and the antecedents of employer-sponsored insurance among the working poor to those at higher income thresholds. Concern with the working poor is warranted because they constitute the majority of the uninsured, they do not qualify for public healt...

821 Discrimination against the mentally ill dates back to antiquity. In classical Greece, people with mental illness were not allowed to walk the streets of the city, and their families were fined if they failed to control them. In the Middle Ages, many of the mentally ill were branded as witches or ‘treated’ by means of starving, flogging and chains. In the first half of the previous century t...

be concentrated at the older ages (54 percent of all widows under age 65 were aged 55-64 in 195’7) makes it relatively more difficult for them to obtain employment if they are out of a job. Characteristically, employment of women is relatively high in December because of Christmas work in retail stores. Although late in 1957 unemployment among men was climbing rapidly, it was not much higher am...

this paper argues that a risk averse of workers after-tax reservation wage the difference between her reservation wage and the tax needed to fund the unemployment insurance system when liquidity constraint binds exists and it is unique. the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of reservation wage to unemployment benefit shows the disincentive effect, i.e. higher unem...

Public policymakers and program administrators often face decisions that impact the retirement incomes of individuals. An important question that these decision-makers may wish to address concerns the distributional impacts of the programmatic changes under consideration. Who (what population groups) would gain income and how much? Who would be unaffected? Who would lose and by how much? The qu...

BACKGROUND We conducted a pilot test of American Cancer Society Workplace Solutions, an intervention that takes a marketing approach to increasing employers' adoption of evidence-based practices to prevent and control chronic diseases among their employees. CONTEXT We delivered the intervention and assessed the changes in practices of 8 large employers in the Pacific Northwest. METHODS Work...

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...