Number of Employees with Job-Based Health Coverage Rises to 152 Million, Uninsured Grow to 43 Million

OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst Industry News Approximately 152 million Americans now have health insurance through their employers, while the number of uninsured has grown to 43 million or 18.3% of the population. Individuals whose family head did not work were more likely to be covered by Medicaid (41.1%) or to be uninsured (28.4%) than to have employment-based health insurance (17.4%). However, the number of Americans with public coverage is dropping, 26 million non-elderly Americans (11%) participated in the Medicaid program in 1997, down from 28.2 million (12 . . .