Issue Brief Summary

The Future of Employer-Based Health Plans
March, 2000

Focuses on the trends in employer-based health insurance which are critical to understanding how health care costs, coverage and access to care are changing, as policymakers grapple with the shifts effected in the employer-based system as a result of the overall re-structuring of the health care financing and delivery systems. Identifies current trends regarding such issues as employer-sponsored health plan eligibility, coverage and costs and what are their implications for public policymakers. Includes a sort summary of New Jersey's insurance market reform. Discusses ways in which the integrity of this voluntary system can be ensured as policymakers look at mechanisms to expand coverage among uninsured individuals, whose numbers both nationally and in-state continue to increase. [22 pp.]

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