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Examining how rising health care costs affect worker compensation

The Foundation's Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization program was designed to support research, demonstration, and evaluation projects examining major changes in health care financing.Under this project, the researchers will measure the extent to which increases in health insurance premiums are borne by workers in the form of lower wages relative to the extent to which they are borne by employers in the form of lower profits. They will also examine whether there are significant differences in this relationship between small and large firms and between low and high income workers. Finally, they will examine the extent to which any wage offsets vary by the expected health care costs across groups of workers with different characteristics, such as age, gender, health status, and family size. The objective of the study is to better understand where the burden of rising health care costs falls, so as to develop appropriate policy incentives.

Grant Details

Amount Awarded $54,750.00

Awarded on: 10/12/2007

Time frame: 11/1/2007 - 3/31/2009

Grant Number: 63309

Grantee

Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

615 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD, 21205-2103

443-287-7277
Website

Bradley Herring
Project Director

410-614-5967
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