{"id":36,"date":"2014-09-11T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=36"},"modified":"2014-09-11T21:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T01:35:00","slug":"why-more-not-fewer-people-might-start-getting-health-insurance-through-work-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/21\/upshot\/why-more-not-fewer-people-might-start-getting-health-insurance-through-work.html?_r=0&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=1\">Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>: &#8220;The law\u2019s best-known and least-liked provision \u2014 the \u201cindividual mandate\u201d \u2014 is probably causing the trend. For the first time, people must buy insurance this year or be subject to a tax penalty. In Massachusetts, a similar requirement changed the employer-sponsored insurance market in two ways, said Sharon Long, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, who has studied the state\u2019s experience.<\/p>\n<p>First, it encouraged more workers who were already being offered health insurance to take it \u2014 an effect roughly analogous to what Walmart is experiencing. Second, it actually induced more employers to offer coverage to their workers \u2014 because, Ms. Long believes, workers began to demand insurance once they were required to have it. Over all, the percentage of Massachusetts residents with employer-based insurance went to 65.6 percent in 2008, when the health care law was up and running, up from 61 percent in 2006.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/pengoopmcjnbflcjbmoeodbmoflcgjlk\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\">&#8216;via Blog this&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work &#8211; NYTimes.com: &#8220;The law\u2019s best-known and least-liked provision \u2014 the \u201cindividual mandate\u201d \u2014 is probably causing the trend. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}