Florida 44th in the nation for employer sponsored health insurance

On November 16 the Economic Policy Institute released a new briefing paper showing that the percent of the population that has health insurance through an employer, either their own or a relative’s, has declined every year since 2000. Florida has some of the lowest rates of employer sponsored health care coverage, coming in 44th in the nation for the percent of the population under 65 covered by health insurance through an employer. At the beginning of the decade 62.2% of the population was covered under an employer’s health insurance plan, but that rate dropped to 54.3% last year, well below the national average of 60.4%.

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