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1. Introduction Unemployment insurance (UI) exists to provide protection against the hardship that would otherwise be caused by unemployment. Unfortunately, it also distorts incentives in ways that cause inefficient increases in total unemployment. In this paper we analyze empirically a modification of the traditional unemployment insurance system. We show that this alternative, based on individual savings accounts, can substantially reduce the adverse incentive effects of the existing unemployment insurance system without any decrease in the protection of those who become unemployed.
United States Congress, Committee on Ways and Means (2004). : Government Printing Office. United States Congress, Committee on Ways and Means (2000). Green Book 2000: Background Material on Programs Under the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means. : Government Printing Office. Medicaid Crowd-Out of Private Long-Term Care Insurance Demand 29 Appendix A: Overview of Medicaid Rules This appendix discusses in some detail the rules that govern financial eligibility for Medicaid. We focus primarily on the rules regarding the amount of financial assets that an individual or couple is permitted to keep and still receive Medicaid reimbursement for nursing homes.
Finally, we note that while we have focused on the two major types of state rules, there are ten other states whose rules differ from those in Cases 1A and 2A. A1. Like the two more common cases discussed above, the difference across states in the treatment of assets is non-monotonic in the couples’ assets across these other cases as well (relative to each other or the two more common cases). It is also non-trivial in magnitude. 34 Brown, Coe, and Finkelstein Treatment of Income: Income is split based on the “name on the check” rule, rather than evenly between the two spouses as is the case for assets, in all but two states.