This paper uses data from the Current Population Surveys for 1980 through 2011 to review trends in health … 2010, over 38 percent of low-wage workers lacked health insurance from any source, up from 16 percent in 1979. The biggest … reason for the decline in coverage is the erosion of employer-provided health insurance, either through a worker's own …

This study estimates rates of all forms of health insurance coverage for workers aged 18 to 64, by wage quintiles, over … the past three decades. This analysis looks at health insurance from any source, while other reports (with rare exceptions …) look at only employer-provided health coverage. This report provides trends from 1979 to 2008, while even the Census Bureau …