The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires group health plans that offer dependent coverage to make that coverage available to workers’ children until they reach age 26, regardless of student status, marital status, or financial support by the employees. A number of...

This paper analyzes the issue of immigration and health insurance coverage in the United States. It is important to examine the health insurance status of immigrants, as growth in the immigrant population can drive up the uninsured. Between 1994 and 2006, immigrants accounted for an increasing...

This paper examines the issue of immigration and health insurance coverage in the United States. It first examines the status of health insurance coverage among immigrants as compared with nonimmigrants. It then examines the impact of immigration over the period 1994-2003, a much longer period...

This paper explores differences in choice of health plan using data from the 2009 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey. It examines the likelihood of having a choice of plan by various demographics and work-related variables. It also examines choice by health status and health...

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 individually purchased coverage as a supplement to...

This paper examines how current health reform legislation being debated in Congress will impact the future of retiree health benefits. The paper also provides background on the impact of private-sector accounting rule changes on the availability of retiree health benefits since the mid-1990s;...

This paper summarizes the literature on CDHP offer rates and enrollment. Since consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) were first offered in 2001, estimates of how many workers would be enrolled in these plans have varied widely. The U.S. Treasury Department has predicted that 25-30 million people...

This paper presents findings from the 2009 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey, which provides nationally representative data regarding the growth of consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) and high-deductible health plans (HDHPs), and the impact of these plans and consumer...

This paper presents findings from the 2008 and 2009 EBRI/MGA Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey and the 2006 and 2007 EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Surveys. It examines the availability of HRA and HSA-eligible plans (consumer-driven health plans or CDHPs), as well as...

This paper examines the relationship between health benefits and union status. Union workers are much more likely to have employment-based health benefits than nonunion workers. In September 2007, 82.7 percent of union workers were covered by health benefits through their own job, compared with...