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Suggested Readings on Health Care Benefits

Employers interested in reading about health care benefits and the aging workforce will be interested in these resources. They include readings from research reports, articles, issue briefs, books, and online resources.

Retiree Health Benefits Examined: Findings from the Kaiser/Hewitt 2006 Survey on Retiree Health Benefits (PDF)
McArdle, Frank; Atchison, Amy; Yamamoro, Dale; Strollo, Michelle K., Neuman, Tricia, Hewitt Associates and Kaiser Family Foundation (Dec. 2006), 47 pp.
This is a full report on the 2006 Kaiser/Hewitt survey of large businesses that provide retiree health benefits to their workers. The 2006 study, the fifth joint survey since 2002, analyzes responses from a select sample of 302 businesses with 1,000 or more employees.

National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in Private Industry in the United States (PDF)
Mar. 2006, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor (Aug. 2006), 35 pp.
In addition to presenting data on access to and participation in benefit plans, the tables include data on days of paid vacations, the allocation of medical plan costs between employees and employers, and employer premiums.

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Employer Forum
The CMS Employer forum includes associations representing over 10,000 employers and almost 78 million employees. The Forum is a vehicle for ongoing dialogue between the employer community and CMS. It holds monthly conference calls with employers to discuss Medicare-related issues, ultimately with a perspective to the employers’ bottom line.

Abstract: How Employers Can Navigate the Medicare Part D Maze
Jacoby, Scott; Stevenson, Jeanne; Andrews, Kurt, Employee Benefit Plan Review, Vol. 60, No. 8 (Feb. 2006)
Provides advice on how employers can navigate the options presented to them as a result of the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit. Working with a pharmacy benefits management company is one way that employers can help decide which option is right for them.