Many Americans would agree with Drs. All of these countries found that this type of mixture was very inefficient, unfair, and expensive. Those that do are the primary payer for only 43.1 percent of the U.S. population, and this covers only 21 percent of all health expenditures. Employers in the U.S.A. complain that providing health benefits is a burden their international competitors do not have. Employers are gradually shifting a significant proportion of health premiums and payments for medical services to their employees.
Employers hire more temporary, contract, and part time workers to avoid paying health benefits.
Eighty-five per cent of the uninsured are employed. One half of all full time workers with incomes below the poverty level are not insured. To buy their own health policy would take 26 percent to 40 percent of their income. With a future slow down in the economy and decreased profits, employers will very likely discontinue or decrease health insurance for their workers. The uninsured have a 25 percent greater mortality risk to go along with an unmeasured amount of insecurity about catastrophic illness costs.