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Thomas Rice

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Employers' contradictory views about consumer-driven health care: results from a national survey.

Based on a random national sample of 1,856 employers, this paper examines employers' knowledge, perceptions, and present and future plan offerings for consumer-driven health care plans. Employers of all sizes are more familiar with consumer-driven health care than with organizations that promote quality of care. Many employers remain skeptical about its ability to control costs and improve quality, while a majority believe that health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) are likely to attract healthier workers. Interest in HRAs is greatest among the largest U.S. employers. The percentage of covered workers who can choose an HRA plan should grow dramatically during the next two years.

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The kindness of strangers: community effects on the rate of employer coverage.

The rate of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) varies greatly across states. We analyze the factors that account for that variation. We find that the likelihood that a worker is covered by ESI depends on workers' own characteristics and also on those of other workers in the same metropolitan statistical area. Further, in almost all states the percentage of workers covered by ESI is close to the predicted level of coverage, which suggests that state policies that could affect insurance coverage have had little net effect on ESI rates. Hawaii is an exception: Its mandate on employers to offer coverage results in a rate of ESI that is much higher than expected.

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