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Article: State Employers Less Likely To Offer Health Insurance
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- Oakland Post
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- January 19, 2000
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Oakland Post
01-19-2000
State Employers Less Likely To Offer Health Insurance
Menlo Park, CA -- A new survey of employers released January 17 by the
Kaiser Family Foundation, the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET),
and the Center for Health and Public Policy Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley reveals that California employers are much less likely
to offer health insurance to their workers than firms nationally. This is
in part why California ranks fifth among states in terms of the percentage
of the population that is uninsured -- 7 million Calitornians, or 22% of
the population, were unissured in 1998.
However, when insurance is offered, California workers pay less towards