The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, requires that group health plans and insurers make dependent coverage available for children until they attain the age of 26, regardless of tax or student status, or dependent status as it relates to financial...

Many recent papers have documented that there has been a steady decline in the fraction of workers in the US who receive health insurance through their employer. This paper presents an economic model of the labour market that is consistent with observed trends. The primary finding is that the...

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...

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...

There is a strong link between health benefits and employment. As a result, employment-based health benefits are the most common form of health insurance for nonpoor and nonelderly individuals in the United States. In 2010, 58.7 percent of nonelderly individuals (under age 65) were covered by an...

This paper examines the relationship between health benefits and union status and the impact of the recent recession on that relationship. Since union workers account for a declining share of the working population in the private sector, further erosion of unionization is likely to coincide with...

This paper examines the implications of changing the tax treatment of employment-based health coverage. It discusses the current tax treatment of health coverage and various proposals to change the tax treatment of health coverage. The implications of changing the tax treatment are also...

There is a strong link between health benefits and employment. As a result, employment-based health benefits are the most common form of health insurance for nonpoor and nonelderly individuals in the United States. In 2009, 59 percent of nonelderly individuals were covered by an employment-based...

In recent years, there have been many employer-driven “innovations” in health benefit design, such as health reimbursement arrangements, value-based benefit design, medical homes, wellness programs, and others. All of these innovations have a common goal: to better manage spending on health...