Who gets health insurance from their employer?

James Bailey
4 min readJul 26, 2019

Most Americans get health insurance from an employer, but largely as dependents on a family member’s plan. Only 46% of Americans are employed, and only 51% of employed Americans get health insurance coverage from their own job.

So which kinds of jobs actually offer health insurance, and what kind of people get health insurance from their employer? I dug through the Current Population Survey to find out.

Among workers in 2017, who gets insurance?

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James Bailey

Health Economist, Professor at Providence College Academic papers at: www.james-bailey.net More posts like this at: www.pursuitoftruthiness.com