“Who Really Pays for Employment-Based Health Insurance and Why Does It Matter for Healthcare Reform?”

Do workers bear the cost of health insurance premiums in the form of lower wages?  Brad Herring will present work in which he and his colleagues conduct an empirical test of this question by examining how changes in premiums over time affect changes in wages for a sample of wage‐earners from the four‐year 2004 panel of the SIPP linked to data on average employer contributions to premiums from the MEPS-IC.  Dr. Herring will then highlight the policy significance of this wage/benefit tradeoff by discussing the implications of two particular provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act – the 2014 “play or pay” mandate on employers to offer health benefits and the 2018 “Cadillac Tax” on high-cost plans.

Bradley Herring, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Health Economics and Policy.  Dr. Herring’s research focuses on a number of economic and public policy issues related to private and public health insurance coverage.  He has published articles in the Journal of Health Economics, Health Affairs, and New England Journal of Medicine, and is co-author of the book Pooling Health Insurance Risks.  His research has been funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, U.S. Health and Human Services ASPE, and AHRQ.  Dr. Herring earned his Ph.D. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, received a two-year RWJF Scholars in Health Policy fellowship at Yale University, and served for a year with the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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