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Moving To Medicare: Trends In The Health Insurance Status Of Near-Elderly Workers, 1987–1996

Concerns about age-related disparities in workers’ access to private health insurance and potential discontinuities in coverage as workers age have focused public policy interest on the health insurance status of near-elderly workers, ages fifty-five to sixty-four.¹ These concerns stem from the fact that older workers and their spouses are more likely than younger workers are to incur costly health-related expenditures, making the financial protection and access to care afforded by health insurance increasingly important.² Health considerations may also lead some older workers to change their employment and, as a result, jeopardize their access to and ability to pay for employment-based . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Data And Methods

 
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Health Insurance Status As Workers Age: 1987 And 1996

 
Age and sex.The nonworking near-elderly.Trends in offer and take-up rates.Acquisition of coverage by uninsured near-elderly workers.

Near-Elderly Workers At Risk Of Being Uninsured

 

Discussion And Policy Implications

 

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