Posted on December 16, 2008 14:41
Categories: Employer and Individual Insurance | Medicare
Topics: Employer-Sponsored Coverage | Medicare | Seniors | Spending
This article observes steady declines in retiree health benefits from the 1990s to 2003. Moreover, the article reveals that while 32 percent of private-sector workers were employed by organizations offering retiree healthcare benefits in 1997 that number fell to 25 percent in 2003.
Buchmueller, T., Johnson, R., & Sasso, A. L. (2006). Trends in retiree health insurance, 1997–2003. Health Affairs, 25(6), 1507-16. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.6.1507. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/6/1507
© 2006 by Project HOPE
Authors:
Thomas Buchmueller, Richard W. Johnson, Anthony T. Lo Sasso
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