Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for State and Local Governments, by Census Division, 2006. Statistical Brief Number 223

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 2006 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS-IC), approximately 119.1 million (88.8 percent) of the 134.1 million employees from the combined workforce of all private firms and all state and local governments (non-Federal) worked where the employer offered health insurance. Of those employees who worked where health insurance was offered, approximately 73.3 million (61.5 percent) were enrolled. The above estimates are not restricted to the state and local government workforce. Within this subset of the workforce, 99.9 percent of the workers were employed where health insurance was offered and 65.5 percent of the total workforce was enrolled. Both values are significantly higher than the averages for all non-Federal workers. Furthermore, characteristics of employer-sponsored health insurance for state and local governments varied significantly across the country. This Statistical Brief presents estimates, by census division, of overall enrollment rates, premiums, and contributions for employer-sponsored health insurance provided by state and local governments. Only those estimates that had a statistically significant difference from the national average at the 0.05 percent significance level are noted in the text.