This paper examines the status of health insurance coverage in the United States including historic data through 2006 on the number and percentage of nonelderly individuals with and without health insurance. Specifically, the paper discusses recent trends in health insurance coverage and some of...

This paper presents Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2006 Current Population Survey on the health insurance status of the near elderly, adults ages 55-64. The findings reveal that the near elderly were one of two groups (the other was...

This paper provides historic data through 2005 on the number and percentage of nonelderly individuals with and without health insurance. The data are based primarily on the March 2006 Current Population Survey (CPS), with some analysis based on other Census surveys. The report focuses on the...

This paper presents findings from the first EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey. The online survey of privately insured adults ages 21-64 was conducted to provide national data regarding the growth of high-deductible health plans with and without savings accounts and their...

Employee Benefit Research Institute estimates from the March 2003 Current Population Survey reveal that children and adults ages 55-64 were the most likely age groups to have health insurance coverage in 2002. The likelihood of individuals ages 55-64 being uninsured (12.9 percent) in that year...

As the baby boom generation ages, the issue of health insurance coverage for near elderly individuals will become increasingly important. This paper shows that among individuals ages 55-64, 86.3 percent reported having some form of health care coverage and 13.7 percent were uninsured in 2000....

This paper examines fundamental tax reform as it relates to employment-based health benefits and health insurance. It focuses on the specifics of the Bush proposal, but the issues apply to the overall concept of changing the way health insurance is taxed. It summarizes the current tax treatment...

This paper presents findings from the 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey. Findings from the 2007 survey are compared with our findings from 2005 and 2006. In 2007, 2 percent of the population was enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP), up from 1 percent in...

This paper considers the lessons learned in the evolution of 401(k) plan design, where the objectives are a high level of participation, a high level of worker contribution, a diversified approach to investing, sufficient asset accumulation to enable retirement, and not outliving one's assets....