title: Employment-based health benefits: recent trends and future outlook.
abstract: The employment-based health benefits system established its roots many years ago. It was during World War II that many more employers began to offer health benefits. Recently, however, both the percentage of workers with employment-based health benefits and the comprehensiveness of such coverage have been declining. This paper examines recent trends in employment-based health benefits. It also considers the likely future of this important workplace benefit in light of shifts from defined benefit to defined contribution models of employee benefits and with regard to the implementation of health reform.
authors.affiliation: Health Research and Education Program, Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington, DC 20005, USA. Fronstin@ebri.org
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fronstin
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D017047:Cost Sharing; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends*; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States