As legislators continue to repeal and replace the ACA, they look for new ways to separate portions the insurance markets into different segments. Some efforts counter actuarial and insurance principles: segmenting the risk pool increases volatility and that creation of different risk pools based on health status and effect premiums
As the debate in Washington rages on over the efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) there…
On June 22, the Senate Republicans released the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (“BCRA”), their version of a bill…
A new report, prepared by economists from the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, provides some interesting fodder for the debate over a national paid leave policy for the U.S. The report provides an economic rationale for establishment of a paid leave program and attempts to create a consensus proposal for both the right and the left of the ideological spectrum.