Health and Life Insurance Coverage of Local Government Employees

摘要

Local government full-time employees with health and live insurance paid for, at least, in part by employers increased considerably faster than employment between 1967 and 1977. Despite the increase in public employee coverage rates, the coverage rates in the private sector remained higher. Within the public sector, coverage rates of governmental units located within counties of the largest SMSAs were higher than the rates found for governmental units located within totally rural nonmetropolitan areas. A larger percentage of employees -- private or public, metropolitan or nonmetropolitan had health insurance coverage than had life insurance coverage.