November 5, 2007

Employer-sponsored health plans cover 52 percent of workers

The percentage of the private-sector workforce participating in employer-sponsored medical care plans held steady at 52 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to figures released by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the proportion of employers offering health insurance and retirement plans to their workers declined from a year earlier. For more information, please visit http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ebs/sp/ebsm0006.pdf.

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