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Trends and Indicators in the Changing Health Care Marketplace
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Exhibit 2.4: Percentage of Firms Offering Health Benefits, by Firm Size, 1996-2005
Although nearly all large firms (200 or more workers) offer health benefits (98%), firms with fewer than 200 workers are significantly less likely to do so (59%). Since 2000, the percentage of small firms (3-199 workers) offering health benefits has dropped by 9 percentage points. While the year-to-year changes have been relatively small and not statistically significant, the cumulative effect has been a large and statistically significant change over this five-year period. This change is driven largely by a decrease in the percentage of small firms offering coverage, and may reflect several years of high premium growth combined with a sluggish job market.
 
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*Estimate is statistically different from the previous year shown at p<.05.
†Estimate is statistically different from the previous year shown at p<.10.

Note: The percentage of all large firms (200 or more workers) offering health benefits in 1999 was 99%, not 100% as reported last year. Data prior to 1999 do not reflect several methodological changes that were made to the survey, including standardizing survey weights to U.S. Census data.

Source: Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1999-2005; KPMG Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits, 1996, 1998. From Exhibit 2.2, at http://www.kff.org/insurance/7315/sections/ehbs05-2-2.cfm.  

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Publication Number: 7031
Information Updated: 04/26/06

 

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