This issue brief explains key elements of the Congressional Budget Office's estimates of the major health reform bills in Congress and examines the role of the CBO in the health reform debate. Throughout the debate, CBO has analyzed legislation and provided projections of the costs and savings to the federal government associated with the plans over a 10-year period, as well as estimates of how the sources of insurance coverage would change.
This interactive tool illustrates the premiums and subsidies for those who purchase coverage on their own through an exchange or gateway because they don’t get health insurance through their employers, Medicare or Medicaid, as provided under the key Congressional reform plans.
This new analysis examines changes in wages and benefits since the 1960s, and how these break down over time for employers and individuals. It finds that working families may feel the impact of rising health care costs by seeing smaller increases in their paychecks. This snapshot is part of the Foundation’s online series, Snapshots: Health Care Costs.
This benchmark annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health coverage, including changes in premiums, employee contributions, cost-sharing policies and other relevant information.
Family Health Premiums Reach $13,375 Annually in 2009 Up 5 Percent as Inflation Fell Nearly 1 Percent
This brief explains how government subsidies included in major reform proposals work in making coverage more affordable, protecting lower-income people from high out-of-pocket costs and encouraging broad participation in health insurance.
This brief explains the likely sources of added costs under health reform, the types of financing measures being considered, and some of the key questions likely to be addressed by how a plan is financed.
This brief explains the ways in which coverage might be defined under a health reform plan, and some of the policy issues raised by those determinations.
The brief examines the concept of employer pay-or-play provisions in health reform proposals and some of the policy implications surrounding the level of coverage required, the penalty to employers who do not offer coverage, and whether small firms are exempt from the requirements.
This brief explains the purpose and function of health insurance exchanges, which are a key element on many recent health care reform plans.
Annual survey of California employer-sponsored health benefits.