During the first half of 2000 more ...

During the first half of 2000 more than 60 percent of working Americans below age 65 had health insurance that they obtained within their primary place of employ according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). "Differentials in Employment-Related Health Insurance Coverage--2000" is available at www.meps.ahrq.gov.

Among the findings in the report are the following characteristics of workers and health insurance:

* Managers and administrators were most numerous likely to be insured (733 percent) Farm laborers were least likely to have insurance within their workplace (28.4 percent).

* Higher hourly earnings were associated with a greater likelihood of workers having health insurance coverage between the sides of their primary place of office While only one third of workers making les than minimum wage ($515 by means of hour) had insurance coverage from their primary employer 832 percent of workers making more than $21 by hour had insurance.

* Employee who belonged to a labor union were abundant more likely to be masked by health insurance through their main work at jobs than nonunion workers (88 percent of union workers versus 576 percent of nonunion workers).

* command employees had higher rates of health insurance coverage in consequence of their own workplace in 2000 than employee in private industry.

The report does not focus upon other sources of insurance coverage obtained in consequence of a family member's employment, an individually purchased private policy, public insurance, or another job

Another novel statistical report on workers, "The Health Insurance Status of U Workers, 2001" compared work at jobs characteristics of uninsured workers between 1996 and 2001 It institute that, overall, the relationship between do job-work characteristics and health insurance status of workers has not changed. In general, workers in 2001 were as likely to be uninsured as they were in 1996 That report is available at the same Web site.

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