The health and wealth of a nation : employer-based health insurance and the Affordable Care Act / Nan L. Maxwell.

Author
Maxwell, Nan L. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012.
Description
xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    "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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Health care coverage in the United States : Three behaviors of firms before the ACA ; Four ways in which the ACA may influence firms ; Health care coverage prior to reform ; Need for reform ; The Affordable Care Act (ACA) ; My research and data ; Structure of the book
    • 2. Employer-sponsored health insurance : The costs and benefits of offering ESI ; Summary and discussion
    • 3. Benchmarking change: employer-supported insurance before the ACA : Legislating to increase ESI coverage and reduce ESI disparities ; Firms' behavior in the prereform period ; Summary and discussion
    • 4. How large firms might respond to the ACA : The ACA and increasing costs ; Large firms' behavior as a response to increasing costs ; Past behavior and potential increased health care costs ; Summary and discussion
    • 5. How small firms might respond to the ACA : The ACA and small firms ; Small firms that did not offer ESI ; Small firms that offered ESI ; Summary and discussion
    • 6. Health policy and firm behavior : Analyzing incentives for firms to offer ESI ; Firms' prereform behavior ; Three characteristics of employer-sponsored insurance in the prereform period ; Firms' behavior after the ACA ; Beyond CHES: postreform considerations
    • Appendix A: The California health and employment surveys
    • Appendix B: Factor analysis : Large firms' grouping of benefits ; Large firms' strategies for responding to increased health care costs ; Small firms motivations for not offering ESI ; Small firms' strategies for responding to increased health care costs
    • Appendix C: Defining empirical constructs.
    ISBN
    • 9780880994231 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0880994231 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 9780880994255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 0880994258 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2012019774
    OCLC
    793576147
    Other standard number
    • 99950183213
    RCP
    C - S
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