title: Health insurance for workers who lose jobs: implications for various subsidy schemes.
abstract: A number of proposals have been made to help laid-off workers purchase health insurance. We use data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to profile the insurance status of workers who left a job. Our descriptive analysis suggests that it might be difficult to design policies that target those who would otherwise be uninsured and that large subsidies might be needed to help laid-off workers.
authors.affiliation: RAND, Santa Monica, California, USA.
authors.forename: Kanika
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kapur
authors.forename: M Susan
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Marquis
mesh_terms: D004608:Eligibility Determination; D004651:Employment / Q000191:economics*; D005191:Family Characteristics; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017057:Medically Uninsured / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020415:Personnel Downsizing / Q000191:economics*; D011203:Poverty; D014478:Unemployment / Q000145:classification*; D014481:United States