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 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...

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...

As the baby boom generation ages, the issue of health insurance coverage for near elderly individuals will become increasingly important. This paper shows that among individuals ages 55-64, 86.3 percent reported having some form of health care coverage and 13.7 percent were uninsured in 2000....

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...