Report Shows Increased Health Coverage in 2012

A new report from the Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI), U.S. Health Coverage Edged Up in 2012; Employment-based Coverage Levels Off, reports that:

"The working-age population (18−64) with health insurance coverage increased to 82.3 percent in 2012 (up from 82 percent in 2011 and 81.5 percent in 2010). The uninsured rate for that group was 17.7 percent last year, down from 18 percent in 2011...

[E]mployment status remains the most important determinant of health insurance coverage: 58.5 percent of the nonelderly population had employment-based health benefits in 2012, either directly through their employers, unions, or previous employers, or indirectly through an employed person in one’s family, according to the EBRI report..."

The full report is available here.