Survey: Employer insurance declines (Politico)

Fewer Americans received health insurance from their employer in 2011, continuing a trend that has seen the figure decline over the past three years.

According to Gallup, 44.6 percent of Americans received health insurance from an employer in 2011, compared with 45.8 percent in 2010. In 2008, 49.2 percent of Americans received their insurance from their employer.

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Employer-provided insurance has declined over the past year for those who worked for an employer full time (-2.5 percentage points), part time (-1 percentage point) and worked full time for themselves (-0.7 percentage points).

Meanwhile, the number of Americans without any insurance has increased, climbing to 17.1 percent this year, compared with 14.8 percent in 2008.

High-income Americans, those making $90,000 or more a year, were most likely to receive health insurance from their employer, at 70.4 percent. Only 23.7 percent of those making less than $36,000 a year received health insurance from their employer.

The Gallup survey was conducted Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2011, with a random sample of 353,492 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 1 percentage point.

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