How do employers react to a pay-or-play mandate?
Subtitle: early evidence from San Francisco
By: Carrie Hoverman Colla, William H. Dow, Arindrajit Dube
Contributors: Dow, William H.; Dube, Arindrajit; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16179; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16179.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  In 2006 San Francisco adopted major health reform, becoming the first city to implement a pay-or-play employer health spending mandate.  It also created Healthy San Francisco, a "public option" to promote affordable universal access to care.  Using the 2008 Bay Area Employer Health Benefits Survey, we find that most employers (75%) had to increase health spending to comply with the law, yet most (64%) are supportive of the law.  There is substantial employer demand for the public option, with 21% of firms using Healthy San Francisco for at least some employees, yet there is little evidence of firms dropping existing insurance offerings in the first year after implementation"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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