Health

Americans enrolled in a relatively new type of health coverage designed to make them more cost conscious are less satisfied with their health plan than those with comprehensive health insurance and are less likely to recommend the new plans to a friend or colleague, a ground-breaking nationwide survey. EBRI Issue Brief Dec 8, 2005 32 pages

This Issue Brief provides historic data through 2004 on the number and percentage of nonelderly individuals with and without health insurance. Based on EBRI estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s March 2005 Current Population Survey (CPS), it reflects 2004 data. It also discusses trends in coverage for the 1994–2004 period and highlights characteristics that typically indicate whether an individual is insured. EBRI Issue Brief Nov 7, 2005 32 pages

This Issue Brief examines the state of employment-based health benefits among workers with respect to offer rates, coverage rates, and take-up rates. It also examines how the state of employment-based health benefits has changed since the mid-1990s, reasons why workers do not have employment-based health benefits from their own employer, and how these reasons have changed since the 1990s. EBRI Issue Brief Aug 8, 2005 28 pages

which presents a detailed examination of a unique community-based initiative to expand health care coverage to uninsured workers at small firms in Muskegon, Mich. EBRI Issue Brief Jun 1, 2005 32 pages

which seeks to provide answers to how the public will be affected by fundamentally different approaches to Social Security reform. This analysis compares "Model 2" individual accounts from the 2001 President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security (the closest detailed proposal to what President Bush has endorsed) with three basic options: Raising taxes, imposing sharp ("cliff") benefit cuts, and gradually reducing benefits. EBRI Issue Brief May 1, 2005 32 pages

EBRI Issue Brief Mar 1, 2005 20 pages

EBRI Issue Brief Dec 1, 2004 32 pages

EBRI Issue Brief Nov 1, 2004 24 pages

EBRI Issue Brief Sep 1, 2004 20 pages

EBRI Issue Brief Aug 1, 2004 24 pages