New Research From EBRI: Health Care Access and Coverage Steady From 1997 - 2002, EBRI Review Reports

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The percentage of Americans who worked for an employer that sponsored a health insurance plan and the percentage of workers who took coverage when it was offered remained relatively steady during a five-year period ending in 2002, according to a study published today by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).

A broad examination of recent health insurance access and coverage trends, the EBRI study found that the percentage of workers offered health benefits by employers increased from 70 percent to 71.4 percent over the period 1997 – 2002. Likewise, the percentage of workers covered by employer-sponsored health plans increased nominally, from 60 percent to 60.7 percent. But the percentage of workers taking coverage when it was offered declined from 85.7 percent to 84.9 percent.

The study is published in the August EBRI Issue Brief, and is titled "Employment-Based Health Benefits: Trends in Access and Coverage." It is available on the Web at http://www.ebri.org.

"While the percentage of workers with coverage has ebbed and flowed with the economy and health care costs, trends in the percentage of workers offered coverage and the percentage of workers taking coverage when offered have remained relatively steady," said Paul Fronstin, director of the EBRI Health Research and Education Program and author of the study. ...

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