- There were predictions that the ACA would lead to a big drop in employer health insurance. That hasn't happened. http://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2016/demo/Abramowitz-2016.html …
- The % of workers with access to health insurance at work went up a bit in 2015. The % who enrolled fell slightly. http://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2016/demo/Abramowitz-2016.html …
- .@larry_levitt (1) Why hasn't it happened? Why does it look as though the coming of ObamaCare has raised the https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743469017105465344 …
- .@larry_levitt (2) salience of health care benefits in workers' perceptions, and so given employers a greater incentive to provide them as
- .@larry_levitt (3) part of a competitive benefits package? Some firms really *ought*, for an economist's sense of *ought*, have responded to
- .@larry_levitt (4) ObamaCare by offloading their employees to the exchanges and to Medicaid, no?
- @delong @larry_levitt Current competitiveness of job-market, especially for higher-end employees? Employees earn too much to be offloaded?
- @larry_levitt and mandatory insurance.for 50+ firms? Only 5% of 50+ firms do not insure now. Do you know the characteristics of these firms?
- @larry_levitt @delong individual mandate thus created pressure for employers to offer esi
- The unpopularity of a health reform proposal general increases in proportion to the amount of detail in it. https://twitter.com/PeterSullivan4/status/743175683766104065 …
- I might need a bot to retweet this I wrote for @voxdotcom every time new ACA premium increase stories hit. http://www.vox.com/2016/5/11/11651848/premium-changes-under-obamacare …
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