Employer Sponsored Health Insurance – A Comparison of the Availability and Cost of Coverage for Workers in Small Firms and Large Firms

Publication Date: November 2008

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health; Labor

Keywords: Snapshot; Insurance; Employer

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This Snapshot expands on information presented in the 2008 Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits to look exclusively at the differences in offer rates, plan costs and cost sharing for small firms and large firms and includes an analysis of out-of-pocket payments from 2004 and 2005 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data.