The Impact of Unions on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
In just the first eight months of 2023, over 323,000 workers engaged in a labor action against their...
Posts tagged with: employer sponsored insurance
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Policy Experts Discuss Strategies to Keep Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Afloat
On October 3, CHIR held the first in a series of in-person policy briefings on the future of employe...
August Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
As summer was winding down, CHIR was reading up on the latest health policy research. In August, we ...
ERISA 101: The United States’ Hands-Off Approach to Regulating Employer Health Plans
Amidst growing health care costs, adequate health insurance coverage is increasingly unaffordable fo...
The Erosion of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance and Potential Policy Responses
Employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) covers 160 million Americans, but the adequacy of these plans is ...
In a Post-Roe World, Employers Looking to Cover Out-of-State Travel for Abortion Services Have Multiple Options and Plenty of Uncertainty
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, analyses...
May Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
This month, the CHIR team celebrated the end of the school year with new health policy research. For...
January Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
In our newest monthly roundup of health policy research, CHIR’s Emma Walsh-Alker reviews studies o...
Changes to Wellness Programs Suggest Employers are Rethinking Health Promotion
January can feel like a time for new beginnings, and new year's resolutions. In recent years, many e...
Figuring out if COBRA Coverage is Right for You
By the end of May, employers must notify eligible employees and former employees about the COBRA sub...
Opponents of Fixing the Family Glitch Reveal their Fundamental Misunderstanding
The “family glitch,” a loophole in federal rules, bars millions of people from subsidized covera...
December Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
We at CHIR are excited to ring in the New Year with new health insurance research! In December we re...
October Research Roundup: What We’re Reading
In honor of Halloween, this October CHIR's Nia Gooding reviewed spooky studies on the projected impa...
Labor Day in a Pandemic: The Varnish of “Gold Standard” Employer Coverage is Wearing Thin
CHIRblog took a break for Labor Day, but in light of the holiday, we continue to think about problem...
August Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
This August, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe summarized helpful resources on premiums and cost-sharing for worki...
May Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
This May, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe reviewed new studies on the effects of silver loading in the Affordabl...
April Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
April showers bring May flowers, and plenty of health policy research. This month, CHIR's Olivia Hop...
Happy Birthday to the Affordable Care Act: Your Presence is our Present
On a chilly March Tuesday in Washington, DC, with the stroke of just 22 pens, health care as we know...
February Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
For February's Research Round Up, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe focuses on five studies on health care spendin...
December Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
Many people make New Year’s resolutions, with popular ones being to get healthy and save money. In...
Complacency Slows Aggressive Approaches to Health Care Cost Containment: A View from Three Markets
Consolidation among hospitals and physician practices is driving a steady rise in health care costs....
Large Employer Strategies to Combat Increasing Healthcare Costs: Trends in Direct Contracting, On-Site Clinics and More
Employers currently insure 155 million people, but many are finding it increasingly challenging to m...
CHIR Holds Navigator Twitter Q&A: Top 5 Questions
The Center on Health Insurance Reforms held its first-ever Tweetchat in light of the release of our ...
March Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
In CHIRblog’s March installment of What We’re Reading, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe dives into new resea...
February 2018 Research Round Up: What We’re Reading
In CHIRblog’s February installment of What We’re Reading, CHIR's Olivia Hoppe digs into new rese...
Have Employer Coverage? GOP Proposals Will Affect You Too (Part 2)
Much of the focus of the debate over repealing and replacing the ACA has been on the individual insu...
CHIR Expert Testifies Before U.S. House Education & Workforce Committee about Innovations in Health Care
On Thursday, April 14, CHIR's own Sabrina Corlette testified before the U.S. House of Representative...
New Report Finds ACA Had Little Impact on Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Enrollment
A new report out from Mercer, a human resources consulting firm, finds that the Affordable Care Act'...
Final Rule on Wraparound Coverage as an Excepted Benefit
The Obama administration released a final rule providing the requirements for wraparound coverage to...
MEC and MV: Keeping it All Straight When it Comes to Employer Plans
Open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces overlaps this year with many employer plan open...
Here’s the Latest on Mandate Exemptions
Now that 2014 is here, the ACA's individual mandate is in effect. In the last few months the Adminis...
Missing the Point: Department of Labor’s Annual Report on Self-Insurance
On April 1, the Department of Labor released its annual report to Congress on Self-Insured Group Hea...