Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Projected To Change Little With Health Reform Implementation

Approximately 60% of the under-65 U.S. population receive health insurance through their employers; full implementation of health reform is expected to result in little change to the percentage of people covered by an employer-sponsored plan. Within the first two years of health reform implementation, changes to the number of employees covered is predicted to range from a net decrease of 2.5% to a net increase of 2.7% (affecting up to about four million individuals), according to economic microsimulations accounting for multiple provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). The finding . . .