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Duffy, Niev. (2004, October). Keeping workers covered: Employer-provided health insurance benefits in the developmental disabilities field. JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education, City University of New York, New York.
Abstract
A study of New York state agencies providing residential care to people with mental retardation and developmental disabilities finds that direct-care workers tend to stay longer at agencies with higher rates of insurance coverage. And yet, the study finds, employee enrollment rates and/or the purchasing power of health insurance expenditures appear to be declining rather than increasing.
"Low rates of health insurance coverage among direct-care workers has broad social and economic implications that stretch well beyond the immediate irony of denying health care services to those that provide them," notes author Niev Duffy of the City University of New York’s JFK, Jr. Institute for Worker Education. "A lack of access to health care services among health care workers can lower the quality of care that they deliver and even endanger the patients in their charge."
This study was performed in collaboration with the New York State Association of Community and Residential Agencies (NYSACRA) and with the co-operation of the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD).
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