Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One -- Introduction; Background; Motivation; Approach; Overview of This Report; Chapter Two -- Data; Chapter Three -- Methods; Chapter Four -- Results; Employer Health-Insurance Burdens; Sensitivity Analyses With Very Small Firms; Plan Quality; Chapter Five -- Limitations; Chapter Six -- Discussion; Overall Results; Growth in Health-Insurance Burden at Small Firms; Differences Between Small and Large Firms; Distribution of Health-Insurance Burden Among Offering Firms; Components of Employer Cost Burden.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
More than 60 percent of nonelderly Americans receive health-insurance (HI) coverage through employers, either as policyholders or as dependents. However, rising health-care costs are leading many to question the long-term viability of the employer-based insurance system. Concerns about the economic burden of providing HI are particularly acute for small businesses, which are both less likely than larger firms to offer HI and more sensitive to price when deciding to offer insurance. Small firms may have difficulty containing costs due to their limited bargaining power and their inability to hir.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/cttj9sc
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Economic burden of providing health insurance.
International Standard Book Number
9780833044112
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Employer-sponsored health insurance-- United States-- Costs.
Small business-- Employees-- Medical care-- United States-- Costs.
Health Benefit Plans, Employee-- economics-- United States, Statistics.
Health Benefit Plans, Employee-- trends-- United States, Statistics.
Health Care Costs-- United States, Statistics.
Health Expenditures-- United States, Statistics.
Quality of Health Care-- economics-- United States, Statistics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Labor.
Health Insurance and Medicare Legislation - U.S.
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
MEDICAL-- Health Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor & Industrial Relations.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States.
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(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BUS-- 038000
BUS097000
MED036000
POL-- 013000
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
331
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25/540973
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HG9396
Book number
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E37
2008eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
W
275
AA1
Book Number
E294e
2008
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Eibner, Christine.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Institute for Civil Justice (U.S.)
Kauffman-RAND Institute for Entrepreneurship Public Policy.