Health Affairs – Health Policy Brief: Congress is negotiating final details of proposed requirements that employers pay a substantial share of their employees’ health insurance or subsidize coverage of the uninsured

January 15, 2010 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation writes in this brief that employers currently provide health insurance coverage to almost three in five Americans under age 65. As such, employment-based coverage is considered the bedrock of America's health insurance system. But not everyone with a job has health insurance. In 2006, nearly 13 percent of full-time workers had no health insurance at any time during the year. Two-thirds of the 46 million nonelderly people without coverage in 2008 were in families with one or more full-time workers. To shore up the system of employment . . .