After a steady decline in the number of people with employer coverage between, the rate has been slowly rebounding.
Listen up potential 2020 presidential candidates: more people now have health care coverage through their employer, and they just may want to keep it, so
About seven million more people gained employer coverage between 2013 and 2017, to total 156 million people, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. This is after a steady decline in the number of people under 65 with employer coverage between 1999 and 2010, and the turnabout is likely due to the Affordable Care Act's individual and employer mandates, coupled with a stronger economy.
Employer-based insurance is by far the single largest form of coverage, followed by Medicaid at 74 million, KFF President and CEO Drew Altman writes in his Axios column, “The quiet, steady rise of employer health coverage.”
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
