Changes in Employees' Health Insurance Coverage, 2001-2005


 

Publication Date: October 2006

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health; Labor

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper examines the underlying reasons behind the decline in employer coverage among employees from 2001 to 2005. The paper finds that almost half of the decline in employer-sponsored coverage was due to a loss of employer sponsorship. Another quarter of the decline was due to lost eligibility for benefits or losing access as a dependent of another employee. The remaining quarter of the decline was due to employees not participating in the offer of coverage.