The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, requires that group health plans and insurers make dependent coverage available for children until they attain the age of 26, regardless of tax or student status, or dependent status as it relates to financial...

This paper presents Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau's March 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS) on the health insurance status of the near elderly, adults ages 55-64. EBRI's estimates reveal that adults ages 55-64 were one of two groups - the...

This paper presents new findings from the 2015 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Health and Voluntary Workplace Benefits Survey (WBS). It examines differences in opinions regarding employee benefits among Millennials (or Generation Y, the demographic cohort with birth years ranging from the early...

EBRI tabulations of the March 1995 Current Population Survey (CPS) reveal that 86.1 percent of the near elderly population, consisting of persons aged 55-64, reported having health insurance in 1994. Almost 76 percent reported having private insurance, and 18.4 percent reported having publicly...

This paper updates earlier EBRI research on estimated savings needed to cover health insurance to supplement Medicare and out-of-pocket expenses for health care services in retirement. It finds that men retiring at age 65 in 2009 will need anywhere from $68,000 to $173,000 in savings to cover...