Title: Workers Without Health Insurance: Who Are They and How Can Policy Reach Them
Abstract: The report provides a detailed picture of the uninsured working population, based on analyses of 1999 Current Population Survey data and a survey of the literature on the working uninsured. Among the workers more likely to lack health insurance: workers in small firms; retail workers; construction workers; service workers; low-wage workers; part-time workers; short-tenure workers; and workers who live in low-income households. A little over half (52 percent) of uninsured workers? employers do not sponsor health insurance; 27 percent are not eligible for their employer?s plan; and 21 percent decline the coverage they are offered at work. The report discusses the implications of the findings for designing and targeting policies to expand health coverage among workers. (Published by The Urban Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation; 2001 August.)
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-08-01
Language: en
Type: article
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