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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Urban Institute

Fixing the Nation's Four-Tranche Universal Health System (Series/The Government We Deserve) [28 October 2010]

By C. Eugene Steuerle

http://www.urban.org/publications/901386.html

or

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/901386-fix-the-nation.pdf

[full-text, 2 pages]

Abstract:

U.S. citizens soon will be participating in a four-part, nearly universal, health care system. Medicare, Medicaid, employer-provided health, and the new exchange insurance policies all come with different government subsidies.

Medicare is tied to age or disability and provides roughly the same amount of insurance to all recipients. Medicaid (and a related children's health insurance program) also provides more or less equal coverage to all who get it, though it pays providers less for that coverage and, cliff-like, often cuts off beneficiaries who cross an earnings line. Subsidies for employer-provided health insurance are largest for those with the highest incomes and the most expensive policies. Meanwhile, the new exchanges created under health care reform would phase out subsidies for households as their income increased.

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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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New York, NY 10016                        
                                   
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