Rutgers Center for State Health Policy Director Joel Cantor offered a possible explanation for why the increase in employer-covered workers is occurring: Workers are choosing to accept employer coverage that they may have turned down previously, because they were concerned with the ACA mandate that every American have health insurance or pay a penalty.
NJSPL: Making Sense of NJ Hospital Consolidation in a Challenging Policy Environment
By Derek DeLia, Joel Cantor, Bingxiao Wu, Yuhao Zheng Hospital consolidation is drawing more and more attention from healthcare scholars, policymakers, and the media. This consolidation includes hospital mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and the growth of large,...