Using data from the Displaced Worker Survey Current Population Survey this paper examines displaced workers between 1997 and 1999, a period of strong economic growth, and compares it with displaced workers between 1993 and 1995. We find that between 1997 and 1999, 7.5 million workers reported...

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 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 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...

This paper examines whether offering a health savings account (HSA)-eligible health plan for free, alongside other health plan options with a premium, alters employee enrollment choices; and if responders differ by health status. The data for this study come from two large employers and cover...

This paper examines the notion that employers have reached a tipping point over health costs and will cease offering health care benefits to their workers. In the end, an evaluation of recent data does not suggest that the end of employment-based health benefits is upon us. However, the message...