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Private Health Insurance: Impact of Premium Increases on Number of Covered Individuals Is Uncertain

T-HEHS-99-147 Published: Jun 11, 1999. Publicly Released: Jun 11, 1999.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the impact of private health insurance premium increases on the number of covered individuals, focusing on: (1) the trends in employers' decisions to offer insurance and employees' decisions to purchase it; (2) an assessment of recent studies that have estimated the relationship between premium increases and insurance coverage; and (3) conditions or factors that could affect the impact of premium increases on insurance coverage.

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