The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, requires that group health plans and … employment-based health plans, many insurers adopted the requirements of the law before the effective date. This paper reviews … Income and Program Participation (SIPP) are examined, as well as data from the Center for Disease Control’s National Health …

This paper examines current public opinion surrounding the future of employment-based health coverage and how it varies … by demographics, health status, and selected questions on satisfaction with health care and ratings of the health care … system in the United States. The public is in large part confident that employers and unions will continue to offer health …

This paper examines public opinion surrounding the future of employment-based health coverage. Data come from the EBRI …/MGA 2011 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), a survey that examines a broad spectrum of health care issues, including Americans …’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in the future of the health care system and the Medicare program, and their …

This paper presents findings from the 2011 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), the 14th wave of an annual survey that … examines a broad spectrum of health care issues, including Americans’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in … the future of the health care system and the Medicare program, and their attitudes toward health care reform. Findings …

This paper examines the prevalence of retiree health benefits among Medicare-eligible retirees. It discusses the … percentage of retirees with employment-based retiree health benefits over the 1994-2008 period. It also examines the trend for … availability of health benefits for retirees through former private-sector employers was a 1990 accounting rule. FAS 106 required …

In general, Americans support concepts that are on the table for health reform. For instance, a majority either … strongly or somewhat support health insurance market reform, the availability of a public plan option, mandates on employers … and individuals, and expansion of public programs to cover more of the uninsured. When the implications of health reform …

) requires that employers with 50 or more full-time workers pay a penalty if they fail to provide health coverage to full …-time workers in 2014. While many employers already offer health coverage, there are other provisions of PPACA that are expected to … increase the cost of coverage. As a result, there is concern that employers may respond by cutting back on health coverage for …

This paper examines public opinion surrounding health insurance and retirement. The data come from the EBRI/MGA 2012 … Health Confidence Survey (HCS), which explores a broad spectrum of health care issues, including Americans’ satisfaction with … health care today, their confidence in the future of the nation’s health care system and the Medicare program, as well as …

This paper examines public opinion surrounding employment-based health coverage. Data come from the Employee Benefit … Research Institute and Mathew Greenwald & Associates, Inc. 2012 Health Confidence Survey (HCS), which examines a broad spectrum … of health care issues, including Americans’ satisfaction with health care, confidence in the future of the nation …

This paper examines the percentage of employers offering health insurance from 2008-2015 to better understand how … health insurance offer rates have been affected by the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA), the Great Recession of 2007 …-IC). Over 95 percent of employers with 100 or more employees offered health coverage before enactment of the ACA and continue to …