- 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 …
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743497503505518592
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:43:21 - 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 …
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743470400684756994
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:39:47 - .@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 …
https://twitter.com/delong/status/743469404462055424
— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:44:53 - .@larry_levitt (2) salience of health care benefits in workers' perceptions, and so given employers a greater incentive to provide them as
https://twitter.com/delong/status/743469570594246656
— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:45:33 - .@larry_levitt (3) part of a competitive benefits package? Some firms really *ought*, for an economist's sense of *ought*, have responded to
https://twitter.com/delong/status/743469751557447680
— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:46:16 - .@larry_levitt (4) ObamaCare by offloading their employees to the exchanges and to Medicaid, no?
https://twitter.com/delong/status/743469871611056128
— J. Bradford DeLong (@delong)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:46:45 - @delong @larry_levitt Current competitiveness of job-market, especially for higher-end employees? Employees earn too much to be offloaded?
https://twitter.com/AlanNeff/status/743470566233935873
— Alan Neff (@AlanNeff)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:49:30 - @delong (1) I think the health insurance exchanges have proven somewhat less attractive than expected to middle income folks.
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743477524596809732
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:49:03 - @delong (2) The tax preference for employer-based insurance is very powerful, and many firms have a mix of low and higher wage workers.
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743477601348399104
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:49:33 - @delong (3) Employer health insurance may still drop, especially for small businesses not subject to the employer mandate.
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743477651302580224
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:50:05 - @delong @larry_levitt Current competitiveness of job-market, especially for higher-end employees? Employees earn too much to be offloaded?
https://twitter.com/AlanNeff/status/743477572189618177
— Alan Neff (@AlanNeff)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:49:30 - @larry_levitt @delong but firms who employ less than 25% get a max 50% premium subsidy?
https://twitter.com/dave_chivers/status/743477762615287809
— David Chivers (@dave_chivers)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:55:58 - @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?
https://twitter.com/dave_chivers/status/743476557088493568
— David Chivers (@dave_chivers)Thu, Jun 16 2016 16:13:18 - @dave_chivers @delong The small business subsidy is quite minimal and basically not a factor, I'd say.
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743477831720525824
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, Jun 16 2016 16:04:39 - @larry_levitt @delong individual mandate thus created pressure for employers to offer esi
https://twitter.com/hyperplanes/status/743472566203990017
— Matthew Martin (@hyperplanes)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:57:27 - @larry_levitt @delong I suspect that for a lot of people, the tax preference makes esi cheaper for the quality of insurance than exchange
https://twitter.com/hyperplanes/status/743477783486070785
— Matthew Martin (@hyperplanes)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:56:37 - @delong Currently writing a paper on the affects of the ACA on take up rates and the macroeconomy so am interested in this @larry_levitt
https://twitter.com/dave_chivers/status/743477746362253314
— David Chivers (@dave_chivers)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:51:50 - @delong @larry_levitt because insurance benefit is ingrained in the professional class' psyche as having "made it"?
https://twitter.com/jmwallach/status/743477672517341184
— sad unicorn wallach (@jmwallach)Thu, Jun 16 2016 15:50:13 - The unpopularity of a health reform proposal general increases in proportion to the amount of detail in it. https://twitter.com/PeterSullivan4/status/743175683766104065 …
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743259447787556866
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Wed, Jun 15 2016 20:52:04 - 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 …
https://twitter.com/larry_levitt/status/743259360722292736
— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt)Thu, May 26 2016 15:03:27
