The nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute examined data for private-sector establishments in 2009:
- Overall, 444,150 private-sector establishments offer health benefits to early retirees, or about 11.2 percent of the total.
- Large employers are much more likely to offer retiree health benefits than small employers. Overall, 34.5 percent of employers with 1,000 or more workers offered them, compared with 1.2 percent of employers with fewer than 10 workers.
- Out of the 984,697 employers with 1,000 or more workers, the 34.5 percent account for 339,720 employers that offered early retiree health benefits.
The EBRI estimates are based on the latest available data from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.
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