STAT newsletter highlights the decline of employer-based health insurance in the U.S.

John Wilkerson, a Washington correspondent for STAT, writes the D.C. Diagnosis newsletter that focuses on health policy. In this edition he turns his attention to the weakening of the employer-based health insurance model in the United States, noting that workers and businesses are feeling the strain.

The piece incorporates material from Bob Herman’s series on the same topic, originally published in his Health Care Inc. newsletter. Wilkerson includes a portion of Herman’s analysis to illustrate the challenges facing the system.

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