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Trends In Health Insurance Coverage: A Look At Early 2001 Data

Between the late 1980s and mid-1990s the percentage of Americans without health insurance coverage rose, in large part because rising health benefit costs eroded employment-based coverage.¹ Recent data suggest that the strong economy of the past decade has greatly affected various aspects of health benefits. Since the mid-1990s the percentage of workers and their families with employer coverage has been increasing, and between 1998 and 1999 the percentage of all Americans without health insurance actually fell.² Despite cumulative cost increases of nearly 20 percent between 1998 and 2000 for small employers, the percentage offering health benefits rose substantially during the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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