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Employers’ Health Coverage Strategies

What a difference a decade makes. From boom to bust to somewhere in between, the current decade is distinguishable from the previous one, across innumerable metrics. Perhaps one of the more alarming points of distinction is reflected in the reality that the past six years represents the first span in a decade to see a steady decline in the number of Americans covered by health insurance offered through employers. From a high-water mark of 62 percent of the nonelderly population in 2000, the ranks of those with access to employer-based coverage had shed upward of five million people by 2004.

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