Publications and Reports
The Kaiser/HRET Annual Employer Health Benefits Survey
The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust have conducted this annual survey since 1999. The survey, which is traditionally released each Fall, tracks trends in employer health insurance coverage, the cost of that coverage, and other topical health insurance issues.
Kaiser Family Foundation
"Building On The Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?"
This Web Exclusive by Jack A. Meyer and Sharon Silow-Carroll presents a blueprint for reforming health care by building on our mixed public/private system. Included in their proposal are design choices and their implications, that would improve access, cost control, and quality.
Health Affairs, August 2003
"Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans"
State employee health plans provided coverage for 3.4 million state government employees in 2002. The Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans finds that premiums for state employee health plans increased 12.8% in 2002, similar to national averages. It also finds that state employee plan premiums are slightly more expensive than the national average and that state workers’ contributions are less expensive than the average U.S. firm. The Kaiser/HRET Survey: 2002 State Employee Health Plans is a supplement to the annual Kaiser/HRET Employer Health Benefits Survey, and offers an overview of health insurance practices among state employee plans and U.S. firms.
Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2003
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance And Prescription Drug Coverage For New Retirees: Dramatic Declines In Five Years"
This Web Exclusive by Bruce Stuart, Puneet K. Singhal, Cheryl Fahlman, Jalpa Doshi and Becky Briesacher, discusses study findings that employer coverage is becoming an increasingly less dependable source of coverage for new retirees, and the problem is likely to get worse.
Health Affairs, July 2003
"Employment-Based Health Insurance Is Failing: Now What?"
This Web Exclusive article by Alain C. Enthoven explains how employers’ purchasing policies contribute to rising costs and block growth of economical care.
Health Affairs, May 2003
"Use Of Subsidies To Low-Income People For Coverage Through Small Employers"
This web exclusive article from Ed Neuschler and Rick Curtis presents a proposal to extend employment-based options under publicly funded coverage expansions.
Health Affairs, May 2003
Kaiser Family Foundation: The New Middle-Class of Uninsured Americans -- Is it Real?
This issue paper discusses and answers the question are the newly uninsured in 2001 predominantly from the middle-class. The paper examines U.S. Census Bureau’s data and concludes that most of the increase in the uninsured (1.3 million people) was among low-income people with incomes less than 200% of the poverty level.
Kaiser Family Foundation, March 2003
Kaiser Family Foundation: The Current State of Retiree Health Benefits: Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2002 Retiree Health Survey
This report presents findings from a study of large private-sector employers conducted by researchers at Hewitt Associates and the Kaiser Family Foundation between July and September of 2002. The study is based on survey responses of 435 large private-sector firms (1,000+ employees) that currently offer retiree health benefits, and includes 36% of all Fortune 100 companies and 28% of all Fortune 500 companies.
Kaiser Family Foundation, December, 2002
"Consumer-Driven Health Plans: Are They More Than Talk Now?"
This Web Exclusive paper by Jon R. Gabel, Anthony T. Lo Sasso, and Thomas Rice reports marketplace developments for consumer-driven health plans in spring 2002. Findings are from interviews with executives from start-up and health insurance firms, benefit consultants, employee benefit managers, Wall Street analysts, consumer organizations, thought leaders, and policymakers.
Health Affairs, November 2002
"Cutting Back But Not Cutting Out: Small Employers Respond to Premium Increases"
Study finds that rising health insurance premiums hit small employers particularly hard, prompting many to pay a larger share of premiums, raise copayments and deductibles, reduce benefits and switch insurance.
Center for Studying Health System Change, October 15, 2002
"Working Families' Health Insurance Coverage, 1997-2001"
Findings from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) Community Tracking Study Household Survey on insurance coverage and families are presented in this report.
Center for Studying Health System Change, August, 2002
"The Erosion of Employer-Based Health Coverage and the Threat to Workers' Health Care: Findings from The Commonwealth Fund 2002 Workplace Health Insurance Survey"
Based on a Commonwealth Fund survey of health insurance in the workplace, this issue brief finds that two of five workers experienced increases in their premiums or cost-sharing, or both, during 2001. Although public support for job-based health insurance remains strong, many workers are not confident that employers will continue to offer coverage to them down the road.
Commonwealth Fund, August 2002
Kaiser Family Foundation: National Survey of Small Businesses
Survey finds that two-thirds of small employers say that they are dissatisfied with the cost of health care and health insurance, and about one-third of small businesses that now offer insurance say they are likely to increase the share of costs borne by employees in the next year.
Kaiser Family Foundation, April 2002
"Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance: Pressing Problems, Incremental Changes"
Abstract of an article that appeared in
Health Affairs, January/February 2002.
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