Employees’ share of an average premium rose from 9.5 percent to 20.1 percent in Nevada from 1999 to 2009, according to the report. Nationwide, the percentage of premium costs workers paid to hold on to their health insurance more than doubled in the same period.
Nevada’s workforce grew dramatically during the 1999-2009 period as employment increased by 23.2 percent. At the same time, the state saw the percentage of Nevadans covered by employer health insurance drop from 61.3 percent to 58.9 percent. The percentage of people covered by employer plans nationally dropped from 69-61 percent during the same time period.
According to the report, the Affordable Care Act is expected to increase the number of people covered by employer insurance plans. The number of people covered by employer-sponsored plans is expected to rise around 10 percent among companies with fewer than 100 employees.
Read the Las Vegas Review-Journal report on Nevada health insurance.
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