This note has reviewed the protection of workers against income loss during the first 6 months of illness or injury. The national income loss due to short-term sickness and disability during the first 6 months of illness, as expressed by pre-tax wages, was about $69.6 billion in 1991. Of this amount, about $46.5 billion (66.8 percent) was replaced by income-protection programs, including paid s...

at the time of the survey, a rate essentially unchanged from 1997. For low-income adults, rates of employer-sponsored coverage increased from 39 percent in 1997 to 42 percent in 1999. Low-income adults in Alabama, Colorado, and Massachusetts saw their uninsurance rates fall the most. In Massachusetts, this decline was driven by growth in Medicaid coverage, while in Alabama and Colorado there wa...

A rarity as few as 25 years ago, physician networks are now the norm in health insurance coverage and health benefit service plans. In 2006, only 7 percent of all employers offered a “conventional” plan, that is, a plan whose terms of coverage are not tied to a provider network; at 54 percent, preferred provider organizations (PPOs) represented the most common type of plan offering that year. S...

 The 2014 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey (CEHCS) finds that 15 percent of the privately insured population was enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP); 11 percent was enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP); and 74 percent was enrolled in more traditional coverage. Overall, 26 million individuals with private insurance were enrolled in a...

This Issue Brief provides summary data on the insured and uninsured populations in the nation and in each state. It discusses the characteristics most closely related to an individual's health insurance status. Based on EBRI estimates from the March 2001 Current Population Survey (CPS), it represents 2000 data--the most recent available. Between 1999 and 2000, the percentage of Americans with h...

The Affordable Care Act's employer mandate requires large firms to pay penalties unless they offer affordable health insurance coverage to full-time employees, raising concerns that employers might lay off workers or reduce hours. In this brief, we estimate the number of workers potentially at risk of losing their jobs or having hours reduced. Most workers near the thresholds--those in firms wi...

background: due to the marked increase in the burden of cancer both in the developed and developing countries, world health organization recommends planning and implementation of comprehensive cancer control program in all countries. we evaluated evolutionary progress of the population based cancer registries (pbcr), an essential component of the cancer control program. methods: we studied freq...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains substantial new requirements aimed at increasing rates of health insurance coverage. Because many of these provisions impose additional costs on the states, officials need reliable estimates of the likely impact of the ACA in their state. To demonstrate the usefulness of modeling for state-level decisionmaking, RAND undertook a preli...