U.S. consumers believe group health coverage will continue to exist but be harder for them to afford.
Paul Fronstin, a researcher at the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), Washington, has included data on consumers' views about employer-based health coverage in a summary of results from a telephone survey of 1,001 U.S. adults ages 21 and older that was conducted in May and June.
About 57% of the survey participants with employment-based coverage said they were very or extremely confident that their employers or unions would continue to offer health benefits, and only 18% said they were not too confident or not at all confident that their provider of health benefits would drop health benefits altogether.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
