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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
q&a
The Social Distancing Economy: Q&A with RAND Experts
Mar 18, 2020
Congress and the White House are weighing economic policies to help people acutely affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Here are insights from RAND experts on what might be effective in terms of fiscal policy, stimulus spending, and emergency relief to affected workers.
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Cybersecurity
commentary
Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats
Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson
Sep 15, 2017
Inside Sources
Small businesses are especially vulnerable to cyber threats. What can be done to provide small businesses the security to continue to prosper, while enhancing America's cybersecurity workforce and making the economy more secure?
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Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
commentary
Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Why Does It Persist, and Will It Continue after 2014?
Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner
Dec 2, 2013
New England Journal of Medicine
As the ACA is implemented, policy makers should be attuned to potential inefficiencies and inequities created by a system with different regulatory and tax rules for small employers, large employers, and individual health plans. Attempts to equalize the playing field may be difficult.
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Affordable Care Act
commentary
Will Small Firms Self-Insure After Jan. 1, 2014?
Amado Cordova, Christine Eibner @Chrissyeibner
Jun 17, 2013
The RAND Blog
Because of the ACA's regulations, some smaller employers with young and healthy workers are considering avoiding the purchase of health care coverage in the regulated market, opting instead to self-insure their employees.
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Employer Sponsored Health Insurance
blog
Would the Affordable Care Act Lead to Reductions in Employer-Sponsored Coverage?
May 4, 2012
As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) individual mandate, one of the questions being debated is what effect the mandate would have on employer-sponsored health insurance coverage. A factor to consider in this is the effect the ACA would have on small businesses, which employ the majority of America's private-sector workforce.
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Small Businesses

The Social Distancing Economy: Q&A with RAND Experts

Helping Small Businesses Deal with Cyber Threats

Employer-Provided Health Insurance: Why Does It Persist, and Will It Continue after 2014?

Will Small Firms Self-Insure After Jan. 1, 2014?

Would the Affordable Care Act Lead to Reductions in Employer-Sponsored Coverage?

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