Uninsured Adults in U.S. Held Steady in Pandemic’s First Year

The percentage of U.S. adults without health insurance stayed steady at 11% in the first year of the pandemic, although nearly 6 million people moved out of employer-sponsored coverage due to layoffs, an analysis released Monday shows.

The percentage of adults ages 18-64 reporting they had employer-sponsored coverage, the largest source of coverage in the U.S., dropped from 65% to 62.3%, a decrease of about 5.5 million people, between March 2019 and April 2021, according to the analysis by the Urban Institute. The share of adults reporting public coverage rose ...