Most Private-Sector Employees’ Work Offers Health Insurance

Feb. 29, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

About 86% of private-sector employees in the US worked for employers that offered health insurance to their workers, according to data from the US Census Bureau.

The percentage of private-sector employees in those establishments was based on a three-year average from 2020 through 2022, ranging from a low of 70.5% in Wyoming to a high of 97.5% in Hawaii, the Census Bureau said in a report released Thursday.

Employer-sponsored health insurance is the largest source of coverage in the US, covering 153 million people younger than 65 in 2023, according to health-care research organization KFF. The Affordable Care Act requires ...

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