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Healthcare Employer Based Health Coverage: Today continued..... Of the 356,000 uninsured Connecticut residents, 80% work[3]. Seventy seven percent of Connecticut’s White residents get their health coverage through their employers while Black and Hispanic residents get their health coverage through employers 54% and 45% of the time[4]. And yet, a study by CT’s Office of Healthcare Access (OHCA) found that employer based health insurance decreased from 66% to 64% in 2004[5]. The Commonwealth Fund in a study about uninsured workers in large firms found that more than one in four employees works for or has family members who work for large firms.[6] According to this same study, the share of uninsured workers in large private sector firms rose between 1987 and 2001 from 25% to 32% of all uninsured workers. During that same period, the share of large firm employees with health coverage through their jobs fell from 71% to 66%.[7] 1] Kaiser Education Foundation. www.kaiser.edu/statehealthfacts, 2002-2003 [2] Latino Socio-Economic Study, LPRAC, Sept. 2000. [3] Kaiser Family Foundation. [4] Kaiser Education Foundation. www.kaiser.edu/statehealthfacts, 2002-2003. [5] “Snapshot: CT’s Health Insurance Coverage”. Office of Healthcare Access, January 2005 [6] The Growing Share of Uninsured Workers Employed by Large Firms, The Commonwealth Fund, 10/2003. [7] Id. |