The Health and Wealth of a Nation : Employer-Based Health insurance and the Affordable Care Act / Nan L. Maxwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maxwell, Nan L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employer-sponsored health insurance--United States.

Employer-sponsored health insurance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 203 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Kalamazoo, Michigan : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In this timely new book, Nan L. Maxwell examines the behavior of firms with respect to their provision of health care prior to ACA deliberations and uses those behaviors to forecast changes in employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) once the ACA is fully implemented. Her analysis focuses on potential changes in the ESI offer due to implementation of the ACA concerning access and quality. The ACA will likely influence the behavior of virtually all firms that offered health insurance at the time of its passage. The ACA is unlikely to incentivize small firms to offer health insurance if they did not already offer it when the act was passed. The differences in ESI coverage and quality of the offer made to low-wage and high-wage workers is likely to converge when the ACA is fully implemented. Disparities in the offer of benefits other than health insurance might increase between low-wage and high-wage firms." -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Preface

Health care coverage in the United States

Employer-sponsored health insurance

Benchmarking change : employer-supported insurance

How large firms might respond to the ACA

How small firms might respond to the ACA

Health policy and firm behavior

Appendix A: The California health and employment surveys

Appendix B: Factor analysis

Appendix C: Defining empirical constructs

References

Author

Index

About the institute.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88099-426-6

OCLC:

806056108