Are employment-contingent health insurance plans bad for womens health?
Research team awarded $2.3 million from the National Cancer Institute to find out UC Irvine economics professor David Neumark was recently awarded part of a $2.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to examine potential harmful health effects of employee-contingent health insurance plans, particularly on women with breast cancer. The study will look at employed, married women newly diagnosed with breast cancer to compare the health treatment and adherence to treatment of women with employee-contingent health insurance (ECHI) and women with spouse-sponsored health plans. Neumark, who has been awarded a $350,000 subcontract of the $2.3 million grant, will work with principal investigator Cathy Bradley of Virginia Commonwealth University to build upon their previous research on labor market outcomes for men and women with cancer. During the course of their research, they identified evidence suggesting women with ECHI were less likely to take time away from work for health rela
