Employment doesn’t guarantee health insurance

A new U.S. Department of Labor-funded report has indicated that employer-sponsored health insurance is rapidly on the decline for millions of Americans. According to the researchers from Iowa Policy Project, the nonprofit organization that released the report, employees are losing the jobs that provide health insurance through the employer, and are finding new employment through contract or that is part-time, which makes it much more challenging to find affordable coverage. Co-author of the report, Noga O’Connor, said that it has become less common and more expensive to receive health insurance…

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