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Health Insurance and the COVID-19 Shock: What We Know So Far About Health Insurance Losses and What It Means for Policy
Economic Policy Institute Link to more items from this source
Aug. 26, 2020

"In March and April, ... new hiring led to 2.4 million workers gaining ESI coverage each month, but historically large layoffs led to 5.6 million workers losing coverage each month. This rate of lost coverage -- over 3 million workers -- dwarfs a similar calculation for the number of workers losing coverage each month during the biggest job-losing period of the Great Recession ... Since the onset of the COVID-19 shock to the economy, roughly 6.2 million workers have lost access to health insurance that they previously got through their employer, according to the best measure of net employment change."

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