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January 7, 2013 | Journal Article
In 2008 San Francisco implemented a pay-or-play employer mandate requiring city firms to provide health insurance coverage to employees. Their experience shows that such a mandate is feasible, increases access, and is acceptable to many employers.
July 6, 2011 | Issue Brief
In this paper, researchers address this question using a pay-or-play policy implemented in San Francisco in 2008 that requires employers to either provide health benefits or contribute to a public option health plan.
April 1, 2012 | Report
The report finds that declines in ESI have been greater for low-income than high-income families, and greater for small firms than large ones. Additionally, low-income people working in large firms experienced large declines in ESI, where as high-income people in large firms experienced relatively small declines.
January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Brief studies how health reform might affect employer-sponsored insurance.
March 1, 2010 | Report
The report examines the tremendous toll on people's ability to afford health insurance and employers' capacity to offer it.
August 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Layoffs lead to lost benefits and reduced insurance premiums for many people. A new brief examines the complex interactions among employment, insurance and costs.
June 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Researchers from the Urban Institute explore possible changes to the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums as a potential source of financing for health reform.
October 31, 2003 | Report
All employers required to offer coverage, but can postpone deadline by buying government-issued "allowances" to not cover. Coverage "floors" rise each year.
March 17, 2010 | News Release
A state-specific analysisBarely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsuredreleased during Cover the Uninsured Week, highlights a worsening situation
March 25, 2013 | Issue Brief
Under the ACA many uninsured veterans and their spouses would be eligible for insurance coverage.