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Employee health coverage dips

Quick View. Dec. 11, 2006.

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The number of people who get health insurance at work is going down.

Between 2001 and 2005, the percentage of workers covered by employer-sponsored health insurance fell almost 4 points. Nearly 19 million employees lacked coverage last year. The trend hit younger, lower-wage workers hardest.


Source: "Changes in Employees' Health Insurance Coverage, 2001-2005," Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, October

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