Issue Briefs
Date of this Version
4-1-2019
Abstract
Growing concern about the affordability of health care and the cost burden imposed on working families frequently appears in public debate about the next phase of health care reform. In an earlier brief, Penn LDI and United States of Care reviewed national data on rising health care costs and different ways to measure whether health care and coverage are “affordable.” In this second briefof our affordability series, we adapt one of these measures to provide state-level data on the cost burden faced by working families who have employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). While not all working families have ESI, it is the most common form of health insurance in the United States. We examine how this burden varies across states, and how it has changed within states from 2010 to 2016.
Document Type
Brief
Volume
23
Number
3
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords
health care cost, cost burden, working families, insurance coverage, ESI
View On LDI Website
https://ldi.upenn.edu/brief/burden-health-care-costs-working-families
Date Posted: 05 June 2019