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 …

. A recent decision by United Parcel Service to eliminate health benefits for spouses who were eligible for coverage … through their own employer may be a tipping point in employment-based health benefits, in part due to provisions in the … equal, do spouses use more health services and cost more to cover? This report conducts a novel analysis that addresses this …

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires group health plans that offer dependent coverage to … health coverage as a result of this adult-dependent mandate (ADM) provision. This paper examines the impact of the ADM from … the experience of one large national employer on total spending, average spending, out-of-pocket costs, and use of health …

This paper examines data from the SHRM/EBRI 2014 Health Benefits Survey. The survey was conducted in February and March … understand changes to employer-sponsored health coverage in 2015. Plan sponsors -- especially larger employers -- usually have a … sense of the changes they are going to make to their health benefits a year early, as it takes time to prepare such …

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 …

The primary federal law governing employment-based retirement and health benefits in the private sector is the Employee … Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, known as ERISA. Under ERISA, the regulation of employment-based health benefit plans has … decisions, health benefit plans that purchase coverage from insurance companies are subject to regulation directly at the …

This paper examines public opinion surrounding employment-based health coverage. It uses data from the 2013 Health and … & Associates, as well as historical data from the Health Confidence Survey (HCS). Both surveys examine a broad spectrum of health … care issues, including workers’ satisfaction with health care today, their confidence in the future of the nation’s health …