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The assessment includes potential sick leave wages, short-term disability payments and spending on employee benefits.

Temporary provisions in the American Rescue Plan Act could have a long-term impact on the uninsured rate if extended permanently.

Turnover is at its highest level since 2015, when just 11% of owners said they had an increase in job changes within their company.

The estimate is roughly $400 million lower than last year's record high of $2.5 billion.

That total includes only enrollees from the 36 states that have relied on the federal marketplace and not states with their own exchanges.

The aggregate cost of uncompensated care provided to uninsured Americans each year also dropped by a third.