cnbc.com (20.07.2016) Why Medicaid enrollment has spiked to over 72 million since Obamacare
Bloomberg (12.07.216) Social Security was meant to protect elderly Americans from the financial vicissitudes of growing old. Eighty years later, the safety net championed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt is protecting some younger people, too.
Bloomberg (06.07.2016) The Affordable Care Act was meant to have a particular impact on smokers when it was enacted: It would shift the burden of high health-care costs from smoking ailments to the smokers themselves—17 percent of American adults in 2014. At the same time, the ACA would keep making progress toward the goal of universal health care, even for smokers.
New York Times (22.06-2016) The Obama administration said Wednesday that the financial outlook for Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund had deteriorated slightly in the last year and that Social Security still faced serious long-term financial problems.
CNN (21.06.2016) Good news for anyone looking to start a family: Paid parental leave for fathers is no longer a unicorn.
The Washington Post (21.06.2016) A new study predicts that the federal forecast of national health care spending under President Obama's signature health law was a big overestimate — by $2.6 trillion over a five-year period.
The Washington Post (30.05.2016) One of the nation’s largest multi-employer pension funds said that it is out of ideas for ways to save itself from an impending failure.
Financial Times (23.05.2016) America’s middle class is losing ground. Wage stagnation, economic insecurity and rising inequality have become the defining issues of the presidential campaign. Yet as politicians search for a response, they must also grapple with the changing nature of employment. The “fight for $15”, the nationwide campaign for a big rise in the federal minimum wage, is of little relevance to the growing numbers working without the traditional relationship of employer and employee in the so-called gig economy.
Reuters (18.05.2016) When cigarette smokers quit, societal healthcare costs immediately plunge, a new study shows.
Stanford Graduate School of Business (09.05. 2016) The United States is the only country among 37 developed nations that doesn’t offer paid maternity leave. Estonia, on the other hand, offers almost two years of paid leave for mothers.
