Full-time employment with no health benefits was a trend for workers in 2012

This report shows us where we were, and it wasn’t a good place,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the Center for Health Policy Research and co-author of the study. “From here on out we can accurately measure how California’s health improves under reform.” Young adults gain job-based coverage in ACA reform In an early example of the benefits of health care reform, the study found that adults ages 19-26 were the only age group that gained health coverage from 2009 to 2012, with job-based coverage for them jumping to from 23.2 percent to 27.1 percent. That was an increase of 254,000 people. This age group also experienced the largest drop in the rate of people without insurance; this rate went from 28.9 percent in 2009 to 26 percent in 2012. But for older adults, the percentage of those covered by job-based insurance plummeted. In the 40- to 54-year-old age group, more than half a million people  lost job-based coverage — a drop from 49 percent in 2009 to 45.4 in 2012. “With job-based coverage shrinking year after year and nearly a third of California’s Latino community without health coverage, California was poised and ready for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act,” said Robert Ross, president and CEO of The California Endowment, which co-funded the report along with the California Wellness Foundation. “I’m confident we’ll see improvements in health coverage rates when the 2014 enrollment numbers are crunched.” High-deductible plans create...
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