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employer-sponsored health plans
Employer-sponsored health plans currently provide some level of health coverage for approximately 160 million Americans. Employer-sponsored health plans are more likely to be provided by larger companies; in fact, an estimated 99 percent of companies with 200 or more workers offer health benefits, according to recent testimony in Congress. However, the plans face rapidly escalating premiums – up 119 percent since 1998 – and even at larger firms, up to 21 percent of workers may not be eligible for coverge, even it it’s offered. Health reform legislation proposals in Congress may include an employer mandate, designed to increase participation by employers and by more of their employees.
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Health care reform blog
Harold Pollack: health coverage for ex-prisoners: a quiet but important benefit of health reform
"If I'm trying to sell health reform, the smiling waitress with two kids, the laid-off steel worker, and the 7th grader with cancer work better on the campaign posters. Yet for many reasons – some obvious, some not – the health and well-being of ex-prisoners has a disproportionate impact on us all." More...
In sickness and in health
"Mr. and Mrs. Romney might ponder why so many people whose lives have been altered by chronic disease and disability become passionate supporters of health reform. Some of these advocates directly experience medical-economic hardship. Others have not faced the most punishing financial consequences." More...
Medicare blog
Maggie Mahar: Republican budget plan could deliver crushing blow to Medicare
Robert Greenstein, President of the Center on Budget Policy and Priorities (CBPP) dubbed Ryan's proposal "Robin Hood in reverse – on steroids. It could likely produce the largest redistribution of income from the bottom to the top in modern U.S. history." More...