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eHealth releases updated data on the availability of child-only health insurance policies in select states.

A new survey of small business owners finds that a majority incorrectly believe health care reform requires them to provide health insurance for employees in 2014, or that they’ll be taxed if they don’t offer health insurance next year. The survey of small business owners with fewer than 50 employees was conducted by eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH), the parent company of eHealthInsurance.com, America's first and largest private health insurance exchange.

The Spring 2013 Small Employer Health Insurance Survey, conducted by eHealth, Inc., America’s first and largest private online health insurance exchange, focuses on small employers’ knowledge of their responsibilities and opportunities under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Major consumer provisions of the law are scheduled to come into effect January 1, 2014. eHealth invited small business owners who had purchased coverage through the company’s website (eHealthInsurance.com) and who still had coverage in effect to participate in the survey. The anonymous survey was conducted online between February 12 and February 15, 2013, and gathered a total of 259 responses. 95 percent of respondents had between 2 and 10 employees. All respondents reported having fewer than fifty employees.

Today eHealth, Inc (NASDAQ: EHTH), released a ‘Cost of Comprehensive Health Benefits’ report as an addendum to its seventh consecutive ‘Cost and Benefits’ report, released in November 2012. This new report shows that average monthly premiums for individual health insurance plans are forty-seven percent (47%) higher than average when they cover a comprehensive list of eight health benefits. Average deductibles for plans that cover the same eight benefits are twenty-seven percent (27%) lower than the average for all plans.