U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price says a Republican proposal now before Congress will provide greater access to health care. But that is not accurate, said Gerald Friedman, a University of Massachusetts Amherst economics professor and expert on the economics of health care (Diane Lederman, MassLive, 3-15-17)
Month: March 2017
Gerald C. Friedman, economics, says the tax credits in the proposed health care bill offered by Republicans in Congress are too low to allow people, especially the elderly, to purchase health insurance. He also says if the plan becomes law and the mandate for some businesses to provide health insurance for employees is repealed, it will lead to companies dropping health insurance coverage. (Gazette, 3/8/17)
Gerald C. Friedman, economics, was a participant in a forum on health care and the future of the Affordable Care Act. (Gazette,3/2/17)
Robert N. Pollin, Distinguished Professor in economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute, says President Donald J. Trump is wrong to blame undocumented immigrants for low wages and unemployment. (The Real News Network, 2/28/17)
A news story analyzing how subcontracting and outsourcing jobs has had a large impact on service workers and their pay cites a study co-authored by Arindrajit Dube, economics, in 2008 that found there was a 7 percent wage penalty for janitors and up to a 24 percent penalty for security guards whose jobs were outsourced. (New York Times, 2/28/17)