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Trends in employment-based health insurance coverage
October 17, 2014
Employee access to employer-provided health insurance declined from 1991 to 2000, chiefly because of relatively low rates of access among part-time workers. From 2003 to 2012, access declined further and participation dropped substantially, as nonunion, part-time and low-wage workers, as well as people employed at small establishments, had a lower incidence of employer-provided health insurance than other workers.
Percentage of workers with access to employer-provided health insurance, private industry, 1991–2012
Year
All workers
Part-time workers
Full-time workers
1991
77.3
28.8
87.8
1992
76.7
26.8
88.3
1993
76.4
24.4
88.6
1994
74.6
21.1
88.5
1995
72.9
20.0
88.1
1996
71.8
19.9
87.4
1997
71.6
19.5
86.5
1998
71.2
18.8
86.5
1999
71.3
18.6
86.7
2000
71.4
19.3
87.4
2003
71.8
22.7
86.9
2004
70.8
20.6
86.6
2005
71.1
21.6
87.0
2006
71.2
21.8
86.7
2007
71.1
24.1
85.6
2008
71.4
24.4
85.9
2009
71.4
23.8
86.5
2010
71.2
24.3
86.9
2011
69.8
23.4
85.9
2012
70.2
23.7
86.4
Note: Data for 2001 and 2002 are excluded because the sampling methodology for the Employment Cost Index changed in those years.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
From 1991 until 2012, the access rate for all workers declined from 77.3 percent to 70.2 percent. There was little change among full-time workers, whose access rates fell from 87.8 percent to 86.4 percent (although they were higher at some points during the period examined). The drop among part-time workers, however, was much steeper—from 28.8 percent to 23.7 percent.
The trends look somewhat different when the period is divided into two parts. Over the 1991–2000 period, there was a 5.9-percentage-point drop in access, attributable largely to reduced access among part-time workers. During the 2003–2012 period, the decline in access was smaller, with most of it attributable to an increase toward the end of the period in the proportion of people working part time.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Trends in employment-based health insurance coverage at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20141017.htm (visited December 07, 2024).
United States Department of Labor
