Affordable Care Act

The Mortality Impacts of the SSDI Waiting Periods

• October 25, 2022
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Disability, Disability insurance, Medicare, Mortality trends

Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries face two waiting periods before they receive benefits.  There is a five-month waiting period for cash benefits and a subsequent 24-month waiting period for Medicare benefits.  Because of these rules, some individuals with disabilities may…

2018 Key Findings

• July 15, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Administrative data link, Affordable Care Act, Behavioral economics, benefit claiming, Cognition, Financial well-being, Health and Retirement Study, Health reform, International, Labor force participation, Labor Supply, Life-cycle model, Long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare, Mortality trends, OASDI trust funds, Older workers, Payroll taxes, pensions, Program interaction, retirement savings, Second career, Social Security, Social Security program communications, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Supplemental Security Income, Totalization, Veterans

Is the Affordable Care Act Affecting Retirement Yet?

• May 21, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Health reform, Labor force participation, Older workers

Is the Affordable Care Act Affecting Retirement Yet?

• March 11, 2019
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Health reform, Labor force participation, Older workers

We analyze whether the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has affected labor supply of older Americans using data that span more than four years after the policy’s implementation in 2014. We find no changes in labor supply of older Americans either…

2017 Key Findings

• August 29, 2018
• Susan Barnes
• Affordable Care Act, Financial well-being, Health, Life-cycle model, Older workers, Program interaction, retirement savings, Social Security reform, Social Security spousal benefits, Veterans

The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Post-Displacement Labor Supply among the Near-Elderly

• June 14, 2018
• Affordable Care Act, Health reform, Labor force participation, Labor Supply

The Effect of Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion on Post-Displacement Labor Supply among the Near-Elderly

• June 14, 2018
• Affordable Care Act, Health reform, Labor force participation, Labor Supply

Expanded health-insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides alternative channels to obtain health-insurance coverage outside employment, which in theory may affect whether people want to work, how much they work, and the sorting of individuals into jobs. Although…

The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans

• June 14, 2018
• Affordable Care Act, Labor Supply, Older workers, Social Security

The Effect of the Affordable Care Act on the Labor Supply, Savings, and Social Security of Older Americans

• June 14, 2018
• Affordable Care Act, Labor Supply, Older workers, Social Security

This paper assesses the effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the labor supply of Americans ages 50 and older. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, we estimate a dynamic programming…

The Affordable Care Act as Retiree Health Insurance: Implications for Retirement and Social Security Claiming

• June 14, 2018
• Affordable Care Act, Retirement, Social Security