Strong medicine needed for health insurance system
A new report from the Economic Policy Institute will provide more ammunition for advocates of a universal health insurance program. According to the report, 47 million Americans were uninsured last year, up 8.6 million from 2000. Employer-based health coverage has fallen from 64.2 percent in 2000 – and nearly 70 percent in 1979 - to 59.7 today.
In New Jersey, the news is even worse. New Jersey experienced the sharpest decline in private-sector, employer-provided health insurance in the nation, falling from 63.2 percent of the workforce to 54.3 percent in the past five years. There are 307,555 fewer workers in the state getting health coverage from their employers than there were in 2000, the report said.
Five years ago, only five states had a higher percentage of workers covered by their employers than New Jersey, according to an analysis by New Jersey Policy Perspective. Today, 29 states are ahead of New Jersey. If the trend continues, NJPP says that within three years a majority of (private-sector) working people in New Jersey won't have coverage through their employer.
In New Jersey, the news is even worse. New Jersey experienced the sharpest decline in private-sector, employer-provided health insurance in the nation, falling from 63.2 percent of the workforce to 54.3 percent in the past five years. There are 307,555 fewer workers in the state getting health coverage from their employers than there were in 2000, the report said.
Five years ago, only five states had a higher percentage of workers covered by their employers than New Jersey, according to an analysis by New Jersey Policy Perspective. Today, 29 states are ahead of New Jersey. If the trend continues, NJPP says that within three years a majority of (private-sector) working people in New Jersey won't have coverage through their employer.
posted by Randy Bergmann at 12:09 PM
1 Comments:
Its really a bad news. In this era no one can think what will happen tomorrow. Health insurance has become an important part of everyone's life and now people are more and more adopting it nowadays. One can easily find quotes and buy a policy in couple of minutes over the internet.
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