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Article: 2006 Employer Survey on health insurance in Montana.(Survey)
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- Montana Business Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2006
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Montana has one of the highest rates of uninsured residents in the nation. Nineteen percent, or 173,000 Montanans, were without health insurance in 2003. In 2006, the uninsured rate was still 19 percent. Most people get health insurance through their employers, yet three out of four Montanans without insurance coverage were, in fact, employed--many of them in permanent jobs, according to the Bureau of Business and Economic Research's 2006 Montana Employer Survey.
The Bureau first conducted the Montana Employer Survey on health insurance in 2003 in an attempt to fill major gaps in the state's knowledge of its uninsured population. ...