Trends in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Plans That Required No Employee Contribution to the Premium Cost, 1998-2003. Statistical Brief No. 108

摘要

The rapid escalation in health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored plans over the last several years has affected the characteristics of plans offered by employers and chosen by employees. This Statistical Brief discusses changes between 1998 and 2003 in the availability of and enrollment in employer-sponsored health insurance plans that required no employee contribution to the plan premium. The estimates shown in this brief, which are drawn from the Insurance Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC), look at both single and family coverage in the private sector of the economy. Changes for employees working for small and large firms are analyzed. All differences between estimates discussed in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level.