Wiatrowski William, Harvey Holly, Levit Katharine R
Health Care Financ Rev. 2002 Spring;23(3):115-30.
Employer-sponsored health insurance accounts for almost one-third of all health care spending. As health care cost growth accelerates affecting the availability of employer-sponsored insurance and depth of coverage, the importance of timely and accurate information for measuring and monitoring these changes and formulating policy options increases. Identifying a growing gap between the need for and availability of data to inform policy on employment-related health insurance issues, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) established a committee of Federal agency representatives to evaluate and advise data collection efforts. This article reports on the committee's current efforts, focusing on evaluation of results from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey-Insurance Component (MEPS-IC) and the National Compensation Survey (NCS).
雇主提供的医疗保险几乎占所有医疗保健支出的三分之一。随着医疗保健成本增长加速，影响了雇主提供保险的可获得性和覆盖深度，获取及时准确的信息以衡量和监测这些变化并制定政策选项变得越发重要。管理和预算办公室（OMB）发现，在为与就业相关的医疗保险问题提供政策依据的数据需求和可获得性之间存在日益扩大的差距，于是成立了一个由联邦机构代表组成的委员会，以评估数据收集工作并提供建议。本文报告了该委员会目前的工作，重点是对医疗支出小组调查 - 保险部分（MEPS - IC）和国家薪酬调查（NCS）的结果进行评估。
