Employer-Sponsored Insurance Stable For Low-Income Workers In Medicaid Expansion States

Health Aff (Millwood). 2018 Apr;37(4):607-612. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.1205.

Abstract

We assessed rates of employer health insurance offer, take-up, and coverage in June 2013 and March 2017 among workers. Overall, offer rates remained stable, and take-up and coverage rates increased. In Medicaid expansion states, the share of workers with family incomes at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty level who had employer-based coverage held steady, while uninsurance rates declined.

Keywords: Employer-Based System < Insurance; Health Reform; Insurance Coverage < Insurance.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Eligibility Determination
  • Health Benefit Plans, Employee / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Insurance Coverage / statistics & numerical data*
  • Insurance, Health / statistics & numerical data*
  • Medicaid / statistics & numerical data*
  • Poverty
  • United States