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Varied as they may be, most U.S. readers of the Journal probably share at least one thing: employer-sponsored health insurance is vital to their well-being. For their part, most physicians, regardless of their field of medicine or where they practice, depend heavily on employer-sponsored insurance for their paychecks. Since increasing numbers of physicians today are employees of health care organizations, many acquire their own and their family's health insurance in their workplace.¹ In this regard, they have much in common with their patients. More than 159 million Americans — 62.4 percent of the nonelderly population — had health care coverage . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The History of Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

Notable Recent Developments

Implications for the Availability of Coverage

Implications for the Quality and Efficiency of Health Care

Employer-Sponsored Insurance and the Future of the Health Care System

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From the Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital–Partners Health Care System, Boston.

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