This paper examines the amount of savings Medicare beneficiaries are projected to need to cover program deductibles, premiums and other health expenses in retirement. For the purposes of this study, health expenses include premiums for Medicare Parts B and D, premiums for Medigap Plan F, and...

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...

This EBRI Notes article examines the amount of savings Medicare beneficiaries are projected to need to cover program premiums, deductibles, and certain other health expenses in retirement. More specifically, for the purposes of this study, the health expenses for which savings are accumulated...

This paper presents new findings from the 2015 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Health and Voluntary Workplace Benefits Survey (WBS). It examines differences in opinions regarding employee benefits among Millennials (or Generation Y, the demographic cohort with birth years ranging from the early...

In 2003, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) added outpatient prescription drugs as an optional benefit. When the program was originally enacted, it included a controversial feature: a coverage gap, more commonly known as the “donut hole.” The...

EBRI tabulations of the March 1995 Current Population Survey (CPS) reveal that 86.1 percent of the near elderly population, consisting of persons aged 55-64, reported having health insurance in 1994. Almost 76 percent reported having private insurance, and 18.4 percent reported having publicly...

This paper updates earlier modeling by EBRI on the level of savings needed for health care expenses in retirement. Some prior estimates have been significantly revised down as a result of changes to Medicare Part D cost sharing that will be phased in by 2020 due to recently enacted health...

This paper updates earlier EBRI research on estimated savings needed to cover health insurance to supplement Medicare and out-of-pocket expenses for health care services in retirement. It finds that men retiring at age 65 in 2009 will need anywhere from $68,000 to $173,000 in savings to cover...