While overall health coverage in the U.S. is way up since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, employer-sponsored insurance has barely budged.

According to a study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, the percentage of working-age adults with employment-based insurance only increased nominally between 2013 and 2014, from 61.9 percent to 62.2 percent.

That's a significant drop since 2000, when 70 percent of working-age adults and 67 percent of children got insurance through their employer.

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