Employment-based health insurance: past, present, and future.

The Future of Employment-Based Health Insurance After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

The commercial health insurance industry in an era of eroding employer coverage.

This paper analyzes the commercial health insurance industry in an era of weakening employer commitment to providing coverage and strengthening interest by public programs to offer coverage through private plans. It documents the willingness of the industry to accept erosion of employment-based enrollment rather than to sacrifice earnings, the movement of Medicaid beneficiaries into managed car...

A Model for settlement of health insurance organizations’ debt to health service delivery institutions

    Background: Sukuk is a type of financial instrument backed by balance sheet and physical assets. This applied and descriptive study aimed at providing solutions to the problems faced by insurance companies in the health sector.    Methods: In this study, we achieved operational models by reviewing the release nature and mechanism of any of the securities and combin...

Employment-based health insurance: a look at tax issues and public opinion.

This Issue Brief provides background information on the employment-based health insurance system and its alternatives. The report discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the current employment-based health insurance system, the current tax treatment of health insurance, and the strength and weaknesses of recent proposals to introduce tax credits. It presents findings from the public opini...

The erosion of employment-based insurance: more working families left uninsured.

The number of Americans without health insurance rose from 38.4 million in 2000 to 47.0 million in 2006, primarily due to the precipitous decline in employer-provided health coverage for workers and their families. Nearly 3.9 million fewer Americans under 65 had employer-provided coverage in 2006 than in 2000. The downward trend in the rate of employer-provided insurance continued for the sixth...