Offer Rates, Enrollment Rates, Premiums, and Employee Contributions for Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the Private Sector for the 10 Largest Metropolitan Areas, 2009. Statistical Brief No. 287

摘要

Employer-sponsored health insurance for current workers is one of the primary sources of health insurance coverage in the United States. According to data from the Insurance Component of the 2009 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC), approximately 96.8 million of the 110.5 million employees from the private sector worked in firms where the employer offered health insurance. Of those employees who worked where health insurance was offered, approximately 59.2 million were enrolled. This Statistical Brief presents average offer and enrollment rates, single and family premiums, and single and family employee contributions for private sector employers in the 10 largest metropolitan areas. It compares these values to national averages for the private sector. These values for employer-sponsored health insurance vary considerably by geographic area and other factors, such as size of firm and industry. Only those estimates with a statistically significant difference from the national average at the 0.05 percent significance level are noted in the text.