Health Insurance Status of Full Time Workers by Demographic and Employer Characteristics, 2006. Statistical Brief 234

摘要

In 2006, 85.4 percent of the 97.7 million non-elderly full-time full year workers in the U.S. had private insurance at some point during the year. Among these privately insured workers, 96.9 percent had employer-sponsored coverage and 3.1 percent had individually purchased private insurance only. Although an additional 1.9 percent of workers had coverage under public insurance, 12.8 percent of all full-time full year workers--12.5 million persons--were uninsured for the entire year. This Statistical Brief presents data from the Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-HC) for 2006 on the percentage of full time workers who had any private insurance during the year, had public insurance only, or who were uninsured for the entire year. Estimates are presented by subgroups of workers defined by demographic and job characteristics. All differences between estimates discussed in the text are statistically significant at the p