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Employment and Health Care Coverage in Ohio:
Chart Book of Working Ohioans
Findings from the 2004 Ohio Family Health Survey

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Even though the percent of people receiving health care coverage through employment has declined in recent years, employment remains the dominant source of health insurance for individuals and families. As a result, most health coverage reform proposals include strategies to both maintain and expand existing levels of employment-based coverage for working age adults and their families.

The 2004 Ohio Family Health Survey offers an unprecedented opportunity to explore the dynamics of health care coverage and employment in Ohio. Its sample size (39,953 participants) permits analysis by both type of employing firm and firm size on a variety of different factors, such as income level, gender, age, health status, and geography. This employment and health care coverage chart book analyzes three types of firms: those self-employed; private firm workers; and government workers. It also analyzes five categories of firm sizes: the independently employed or 1 person firm; small firms of 2–49 workers; medium firms of 50–249 workers; large firms of 250–999 workers; and very large firms of 1,000 or more employees.

The Employment and Health Care Coverage in Ohio: Chart Book of Working Ohioans focuses on employment and health care coverage for working adults within the age range of 18 to 64 years in Ohio. The chart book contains seven sections:

• Demographics for Working Ohioans
• Demographics for Uninsured Working Ohioans
• Health Insurance Coverage by Type of Employing Firm for Working Ohioans
• Health Insurance Coverage by Size of Employing Firm for Working Ohioans
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Tables