Falling Apart: Declining Job-Based Health Coverage for Working Families in California and the United States

The report finds that over the last five years there were important shifts for all non-elderly persons from employer-based coverage to uninsurance and increased enrollment in public programs. The outcomes have been different for adults than for children, mainly because children have been the main beneficiaries of new public health programs and increased public coverage. The majority of adults who have lost employer-based health coverage have become uninsured.