EBRI-ERF Policy Forums and Publications, 1979-2003
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05/08/03 "Will Wider Use Of Evidence-Based Medicine Significantly Enhance Health Care Quality And Affordability? Implications for Consumer-Driven Health Benefits
12/05/02 "Will Today's Worker Retire With Adequate Income? And, How Are Today's Retirees Surviving From A Financial Perspective?"
05/02/02 "Consumer-Driven Health Benefits: A Continuing Evolution?"
- published as Consumer-Driven Health Benefits: A Continuing Evolution?
- "Can "Consumerism" Slow the Rate of Health Benefit Cost Increases?" by Paul Fronstin, EBRI Issue Brief Number 247, July 2002.
12/06/01 "The Ongoing Move to Defined Contribution and Individual Account Plans: Issues and Implications"
- "The Ongoing Growth of Defined Contribution and Individual Account Plans: Issues and Implications" by Lynn Miller, EBRI Issue Brief Number 243, March 2002
05/03/01 "Defined Contribution Health Benefits: The Next Evolution?"
- "Defined Contribution Health Benefits" by Paul Fronstin, EBRI Issue Brief Number 231, March 2001.
- "Can Defined Contribution Health Insurance Reduce Cost Growth?" by Len Nichols, EBRI Issue Brief Number 246, June 2002.
- "Defined Contribution Health Benefits: The Next Evolution?" by Stephen Blakely, EBRI Notes, Vol. 22, Number 8, August 2001.
- "Two Views on Defined Contribution Health Benefits" by Dr. Donald Palmisano, AMA and Dr. James Bentley, AHA
12/07/00 - Member Conclave
05/03/00 "The Economic Costs of the Uninsured: Implications for Business and Government"
12/01/99 "The Next 25 Years of ERISA: The Future of Private Retirement Plans"
- Published as The Future of Private Retirement Plans
05/05/99 "Severing the Link Between Health Insurance and Employment: What Happens if Employers Stop Offering Health Benefits?"
12/02/98 "Beyond Ideology: Are Individual Social Security Accounts Feasible?"
05/06/98 "The Future of Medical Benefits"
- published as The Future of Medical Benefits
12/03/97 "Do Employers/Employees Still Need Employee Benefits?"
- published as Do Employers/Employees Still Need Employee Benefits?
- "Do Employers/Employees Still Need Employee Benefits?: A Report on EBRI's December Policy Forum" by Christopher R. Conte, EBRI Notes, Vol. 19, Number 2, February 1998.
04/30/97 "Retirement Prospects in a Defined Contribution World"
- published as Retirement Prospects in a Defined Contribution World
12/04/96 "Assessing Social Security Reform Alternatives"
- published as Assessing Social Security Reform Alternatives
04/30/96 "Comprehensive Tax Reform: Implications for Economic Security and Employee Benefits"
12/07/95 "Changing World of Work and Employee Benefits"
- "The Changing World of Work and Employee Benefits" by Dallas Salisbury, Ken McDonnell, and Edina Rheem, EBRI Issue Brief Number 172, April 1996.
05/11/95 "When Workers Call the Shots: Can They Achieve Retirement Security?"
10/24/94 "The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits"
- published as "The Future of Employment-Based Health Benefits" EBRI Special Report SR-29/Issue Brief Number 161, May 1995
05/04/94 "Retirement in the 21st Century: Ready or Not"
- published as Retirement in the 21st Century: Ready or Not
10/06/93 "The Changing Health Care Delivery System"
- published as "The Changing Health Care Delivery System: An EBRI-ERF Policy Forum" EBRI Special Report SR-21/Issue Brief Number 148, April 1994
05/05/93 "Pension Funding and Taxation: Implications for Tomorrow"
12/01/92 "Rationing: Making Choices and Allocating Resources in the Health Care Delivery System; Implications for Access, Quality, and Costs."
- published as Special Report/IB "Making Choices: Rationing in the U.S. Health System" EBRI Issue Brief Number 136, April 1993
04/29/92 "Paternalism vs. Empowerment: What Benefits Should/Will Employers Provide?
09/25/91 "Retirement Security in a Post-FASB Environment"
05/02/91 "Pension Portability and Preservation: Assuring Adequate Retirement Income into the 21st Century"
- unedited transcript
10/04/90 "Winners and Losers in Reforming the U.S. Health Care System"
05/03/90 "Assessing the Implications of Proposals for Pension Fund Taxation"
- unedited transcript
09/28/89 "Managing Health Care Costs While Maintaining Quality"
- unedited transcript
07/26/89 "The Impact of Aging and Cultural Changes on Pensions in Japan and Its Relationship to the USA"
04/05/89 "The Retirement Policy Challenge"
- unedited transcript
10/05/88 "Employer-Provided Retiree Health Benefits: Provision, Funding, Legal, and Public Policy Issues"
- published as Retiree Health Benefits: What Is the Promise?
05/04/88 "Whither Benefits? Adjusting Today's Benefit Packages for Changes in Tax Law, Economic Competitiveness, and Demographic and Labor Force Shifts"
- published as Business, Work and Benefits: Adjusting to Change
10/21/87 "Financing Catastrophic & Long-Term Health Care: Beyond Recent Medicare Reforms"
04/27/87 "Government Mandating of Health, Pension, and Other Employee Benefits"
- published as Government Mandating of Employee Benefits
10/15/86 "America in Transition: Benefits for the Future"
- published as America in Transition: Benefits for the Future
06/03/86 The Changing Health Care Market
- published as The Changing Health Care Market
10/24/85 "Tax Reform and Employee Benefits"
- unedited transcript
06/06/85 "The Impact of Medicare Reforms on the Private Sector"
- published as Medicare Reform: The Private-Sector Impact
02/08/85 "Is a National Employee Benefits Policy Possible?"
- unedited transcript
1984 - In 1984, EBRI staff and sponsors assisted the U.S. Senate, Committee on Governmental Affairs, in conducting a series of five policy forums designed to aid in the process of designing a new civil service retirement system for new hires. These were published by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.
10/19/83 "Reforming Health Care Finance"
- unpublished papers
06/08/83 "The Tax Treatment of Employee Benefits: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"
- published as Why Tax Employee Benefits?
10/20/82 "Accounting for Employer Pension Liabilities: Policy Issues, Options and Effects"
- unedited transcript
05/20/82 "Defined Benefit/Defined Contribution Plans: Understanding the Differences"
11/10/81 "The Effects of Changing Family Relationships on Employee Benefit Programs"
05/06/81 "Retirement Income and the Economy: Policy Directions for the 80s"
12/10/80 "Retirement Income and the Economy: Increasing Income for the Aged?"
06/23/80 "Retirement Income Policy: Considerations "
- published as Arranging the Pieces: The Retirement Income Puzzle
12/06/79 "Should Pension Assets Be Managed for Social/Political Purposes?"
06/25/79 "Pension Plan Termination Insurance: Does the Foreign Experience Have Relevance for the United States?"