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Business and health, 1996
One of welfare reform's unintended consequences has been a reduction of health care coverage ... more One of welfare reform's unintended consequences has been a reduction of health care coverage among poor Americans. The welfare law severed the link between cash assistance and Medicaid. In turn, Congress provided states with several options to continue to offer Medicaid to those leaving welfare and to expand health coverage to more low-income families. Nonetheless, many low-income people lost health care coverage as they moved from welfare to work. This paper provides a statistical portrait of changes in health insurance coverage, and the policy measures that states have taken to fix the problem
EBRI issue brief / Employee Benefit Research Institute, 1995
This Issue Brief is designed to provide a basic understanding of the relationship of the Employee... more This Issue Brief is designed to provide a basic understanding of the relationship of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to health plans. It is based, in part, on an Employee Benefit Research Institute-Education and Research Fund (EBRI-ERF) educational briefing held in March 1995. This report includes a section by Peter Schmidt of Arnold & Porter, a section about multiemployer plans written by Judy Mazo of The Segal Company; and a section about ERISA and state health reform written by Kala Ladenheim of the Intergovernmental Health Policy Project. Starting in the late 1980s, three trends converged to make ERISA a critical factor in state health reforms: increasingly comprehensive state health policy experimentation; changes in the makeup of the insurance market (including the rise in self-insurance and the growth of managed care); and increasingly expansive interpretations of ERISA by federal courts. The changing interpretations of ERISA's relationship to ...
Business and health, 1996
One of welfare reform's unintended consequences has been a reduction of health care coverage ... more One of welfare reform's unintended consequences has been a reduction of health care coverage among poor Americans. The welfare law severed the link between cash assistance and Medicaid. In turn, Congress provided states with several options to continue to offer Medicaid to those leaving welfare and to expand health coverage to more low-income families. Nonetheless, many low-income people lost health care coverage as they moved from welfare to work. This paper provides a statistical portrait of changes in health insurance coverage, and the policy measures that states have taken to fix the problem
EBRI issue brief / Employee Benefit Research Institute, 1995
This Issue Brief is designed to provide a basic understanding of the relationship of the Employee... more This Issue Brief is designed to provide a basic understanding of the relationship of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to health plans. It is based, in part, on an Employee Benefit Research Institute-Education and Research Fund (EBRI-ERF) educational briefing held in March 1995. This report includes a section by Peter Schmidt of Arnold & Porter, a section about multiemployer plans written by Judy Mazo of The Segal Company; and a section about ERISA and state health reform written by Kala Ladenheim of the Intergovernmental Health Policy Project. Starting in the late 1980s, three trends converged to make ERISA a critical factor in state health reforms: increasingly comprehensive state health policy experimentation; changes in the makeup of the insurance market (including the rise in self-insurance and the growth of managed care); and increasingly expansive interpretations of ERISA by federal courts. The changing interpretations of ERISA's relationship to ...