SPOTLIGHT: Employer-based coverage declines in Calif.

A UCLA study out today found that the number of workers in California who have employer-based health insurance has fallen again, this time dropping about 2 percent to 54.5 percent. The study noted an even more serious decline in the total number of children with insurance coverage, which fell 4 percent to 52.1 percent. That puts California in jeopardy of becoming the first big state in which the majority of children do not have health insurance. Author Richard E. Brown estimates that employer moves to cut costs by raising the premiums workers are expected to pay led nearly 800,000 Californians to drop their insurance coverage. Story

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