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Trends in retiree health insurance, 1997–2003.

Posted on December 16, 2008 14:41

Topics: Health Care Financing | Insurance | Trends

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 This article observes steady declines in retiree health benefits from the 1990s to 2003.  Moreover, the article reveals that while 32 percent of private-sector workers were employed by organizations offering retiree healthcare benefits in 1997 that number fell to 25 percent in 2003. 

Buchmueller, T., Johnson, R., & Sasso, A. L. (2006). Trends in retiree health insurance, 1997–2003. Health Affairs, 25(6), 1507-16. DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.6.1507. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/6/1507 © 2006 by Project HOPE. 

Authors: Thomas Buchmueller, Richard W. Johnson, Anthony T. Lo Sasso. 

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