Government health coverage might now exceed private coverage in US

Published June 25, 2021 7:41pm ET



The United States might be at the point where government health coverage exceeds private health insurance.

Roughly 150 million people have some form of taxpayer-subsidized health insurance, while about 153 million have employer-provided coverage, a recent analysis by Yahoo Finance found. The analysis, though, left out the 9 million employees and their dependents who are enrolled in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, which would mean that 159 million people have taxpayer-subsidized coverage.

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