This paper examines one structural change in the work force that has contributed to the decline in employment-based health benefits: the movement of workers from the manufacturing sector to the service sector. Between 1987 and 2002 not only did the percentage of workers in the manufacturing...

This paper examines the state of employment-based health benefits, updating prior EBRI research that examined trends in coverage on a monthly basis, over the time period from December 1995 to July 2011. Examining these data on a monthly basis allows a more accurate identification of changes in...

Five years after passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), implementation of many of its provisions and delay of others, a majority of workers continue to give low marks to the U.S. health care system. This paper examines public opinion with respect to various...

This paper examines satisfaction with various aspects of health care by type of health plan among three groups of health-plan enrollees: those with a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP), those with a high-deductible health plan (HDHP), and those with traditional coverage. The findings presented...

This paper presents Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS) on the health insurance status of the near elderly, adults ages 55-64. EBRI's estimates reveal that adults ages 55-64 were one of two groups - the...

Managed competition and a health insurance exchange appear to be the primary proposed vehicles for expanding Americans' access to health insurance coverage. For managed competition to work, most analysts agree that a number of components will need to be included: individual mandates, risk...

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 presents the findings from the ninth annual 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...

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...