Saving Small Employer Health Insurance

Employer-based health insurance: a balance sheet.

The future of employer-based health insurance.

America honors four presidents with monuments on the National Mall in Washington, DC, and Franklin D Roosevelt didn’t get his by chance. Leadership out of the Depression, triumph in World War II, and the New Deal are just part of his immense legacy. But President Roosevelt didn’t do it all. In 1935, forced to choose between his highest domestic policy priorities—a minimum guaranteed income for ...

Employer-sponsored health insurance for retired Americans.

Diabetes in employer-sponsored health insurance.

OBJECTIVE To examine medical and mental health care expenditures for large numbers of individuals with diabetes enrolled in employment-sponsored insurance plans. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Health insurance billing data for approximately 1.3 million individuals enrolled in health insurance plans sponsored by 862 large self-insured employers nationwide were used to examine employer expenditure...

THE CASE AGAINST MANDATED EMPLOYER-PROVIDED EMPLOYEE HEALTH INSURANCE: A Practical Small Business Perspective Mandated employer-provided health insurance comes in three principal flavors:

The Basics The reader must appreciate a few basic numbers about the uninsured and health insurance costs before a discussion can begin: the Bureau of the Census reports that 45.5 million people or roughly 15 percent of the American population did not have health insurance in March 2007. Of that number, 39 percent lived in family units or by themselves on incomes of less than $25,000; 30 percent...