What the Inflation Reduction Act means for healthcare

GETTING TO KNOW THE IRA: The IRA is set to extend the Affordable Care Act's enhanced premium subsidies through 2025 and lower prescription drug prices and out-of-pocket costs for Medicare beneficiaries. This means anyone who purchased their individual health plan through the ACA marketplace or is enrolled in Medicare may see significant savings.

However, the same cannot be said for employers.

"The reason why this legislation is so profound is because, by and large, it stabilizes and even reduces the cost of individual plans," says John Staub , director of outreach at Remodel Health , a health benefits management platform for employers. "If employers are offering a group plan, there is no insulation from rising costs."

Read: What the Inflation Reduction Act means for employer-provided healthcare plans

GOOD TECH, BAD TECH:?According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 20% of people with a disability were employed in 2021. That's an improvement over 2020, when 17% of those with disabilities were participating in the labor market, but still more than three times less than the average for people without disabilities.?

Not only is it harder for workers with disabilities to get hired, they often face additional challenges once they join companies and realize that?existing technology systems?are not suited to their needs, according to Giselle Mota, the chief of product inclusion at ADP.?

"When it comes to creating an inclusive environment,?there's a saying among people who are disabled: 'nothing for us without us,'" she says. "People with disabilities are such an underrepresented group in many technology conversations. Often disability only gets flagged when it's for accessibility — organizations paying attention to it only when it becomes something of a risk area."?

Read: ADP exec: For employees with disabilities, technology could be making work harder

GEN Z ON THE MOVE: Gen Z has fully taken advantage of the opportunities created by remote work. In fact, 9% of Gen Z moved in 2021, and 4.9% of those folks are already plotting their next move, according to a recent poll conducted by SurveyMonkey.?

Commercial real estate blog CommercialCafe recently released a list of the top cities for Gen Z employees, ranked based on factors like the local unemployment rate, affordability, percentage of Gen Z-ers already calling those locales home, percentage of Gen Z-ers currently enrolled in schools and the ratio of parks to person.?

What cities top the list? We’re betting they’re not the ones you’re expecting.?

Read: Affordability, parks and easy commutes are pulling Gen Z to these 10 cities