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Insurance Insecurity: Families are Losing Employer-Sponsored Insurance Coverage

Employer Insurance Instability Sources

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Prepared by:
Ellen Montz, MPA, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services
Meena Seshamani, MD, PhD, Director of Policy Analysis, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services

Data analysis provided by the Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

 

1 P.R. Orszag, Growth in Health Care Costs: Statement Before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, Jan 31 2008), available at http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=8948

2 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.

3 Kaiser Family Foundation, Employer Health Benefit Survey, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2009).

4 ERIU Research Highlight, Economic Research Initiative, available at http://www.umich.edu/~qu-fastfacts.html.

5 M. Doty, S. Collins, J. Nicholson, and S. Rustgi. Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is Not a Viable Option for Most US Families. (The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009).

6 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey. Annual Social and Economic Supplements, March 2007.

7 Rhoades JA, Cohen SB.  The Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2004–2007: Estimates for the U.S. Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population under Age 65. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Statistical Brief #258.  August 2009.

8 Families USA and The Lewin Group. Americans at Risk: One in Three Uninsured. http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/americans-at-risk.pdf

9 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

10 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

11 M. Doty, S. Collins, J. Nicholson, and S. Rustgi. Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is Not a Viable Option for Most US Families. (The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009).

12 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

13 Kaiser Family Foundation, The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008).

14 Institute of Medicine, America's Uninsured Crisis: Consequences for Health and Health Care. (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, February 2009).

15 Kaiser Family Foundation, The Uninsured: A Primer, Key Facts about Americans without Health Insurance, (Menlo Park, CA: Kaiser Family Foundation, 2008).

16 National Cancer Institute. Surveillance Epidemiology End Results (SEER) Cancer Statistics Review. http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2006/results_merged/sect_02_all_sites.pdf.

17 D. Lloyd-Jones, Peter W. F. Wilson, et al. Lifetime Risk of Coronary Heart Disease by Cholesterol Levels at Selected Ages. Arch Intern Med, Sep 2003; 163: 1966 - 1972.

18 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

19 C. Schoen, S.R. Collins, J.L. Kriss, et al. How many are underinsured? Trends among U.S. adults, 2003 and 2007. Health Affairs 2008; 27(4): w298-w309.

20 National Center for Health Statistics, “Health, United States, 2008” (Hyattsville, Md.: NCHS, 2009).

21 National Center for Health Statistics, “Health, United States, 2008” (Hyattsville, Md.: NCHS, 2009).

22 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

24 Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2007

25 Doty MM, Collins SR, Nicholson JL et al. Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is not a Viable Option for Most US Families. The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009.

26 M. Doty, S. Collins, J. Nicholson, and S. Rustgi. Failure to Protect: Why the Individual Insurance Market is Not a Viable Option for Most US Families. (The Commonwealth Fund, July 2009).

27 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

28 Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2006, 2007. Analysis provided by Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

29 Council of Economic Advisers. The Economic Case for Health Care Reform. June 2009.