impact of quality risks on equilibrium coverage levels and risk premiums that suppliers of insurance and barley producers …

received health coverage through employers. Yet, about 16 percent of this population was uninsured in 2000. Government programs … designing health benefits, have a major impact on the number of people with and without health coverage. With funding from the … challenges and opportunities concerning the role that employers play in providing health coverage …

This paper examines recent trends in health insurance coverage. We found that nearly 66 percent of Americans under age …-based health insurance coverage has been coupled with a decline in the percentage and number of Americans without health insurance … coverage. Between 1998 and 1999, the number of uninsured nonelderly Americans declined from 43.9 million to 42.1 million, while …