Urban Institute Report: 3.3M Lost Job-Based Coverage From April-July

By Amy Lotven / September 21, 2020 at 3:14 PM
About 3.3 million adults lost their employer-sponsored coverage and nearly 2 million became uninsured from April through mid-July, according to a new Urban Institute analysis of the U.S. Census’ Household Public Survey funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Medicaid and other options might have mitigated the overall number, as about 2.2 million adults gained public coverage during the same time period, the report says. The researchers say that expanding Medicaid in the 12 states that have not yet done...


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