Health Insurance Coverage: Mixed Messages

The newest data on health insurance coverage shows that while private employers are reducing coverage, young adults who can now remain on their parents’ plans are doing so. Meanwhile, Medicaid coverage is increasing.

How Federal Budget Problems Can Affect States

Moody’s Investor Service has placed on review 28 issuances of GARVEE bonds, a financing vehicle put at risk by the potential sequester of certain federal highway funding. Chalk it up as another example of state exposures to federal budget problems.