Notes EBRI Notes Vol. Predicting the future is both hazardous and exciting. Hazardous because, when the future becomes the present, your friends may chide you about how very wrong your predictions were. Exciting because you get to speculate, with no restraints, about what is going to happen. For someone my age, the excitement far outweighs the hazard because I may not be around to be chided when the future becomes the present.
Surveyors have a method for mapping unknown areas, called triangulation.
Using it they map small areas, one at a time, until they have gradually mapped the whole area. Perhaps we can learn more about the future of work and the relations between employers and employees if we try the same method. Many individuals qualify for Medicaid during periods of employment transition and are only in the program for a short period of time. In addition, Medicaid was recently expanded to include pregnant women and children living below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Changes in the Medicaid program could have adverse effects on this population, increasing the number of uninsured individuals.