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Recent data from Gallup and Healthways revealed that the percentage of Americans getting health insurance from employers decreased thus far in 2011, marking the third straight year of declines.

From January through May 2011, 45.0 percent of American adults aged 18 or older reported having employer-based health insurance. This percentage is a decline slight from 2010, when 45.8 percent of adults reported getting health insurance from employers.

In 2009, the percentage of respondents with employer-based health insurance stood at 46.8 percent, while in 2008 the number was even higher – 49.2 percent of adults. Thus, the number of American adults with health insurance provided by employers dropped more than 8.5 percent from 2008 to 2011.

According to Gallup, thus far in 2011, 25.3 percent of adults reported having government health insurance (e.g. Medicare, Medicaid, or military/veterans’ benefits). This percentage is unchanged from 2010 but higher than both 2009 (24.6 percent) and 2008 (23.4 percent).

The number of uninsured American adults jumped markedly from 2008 (14.8 percent) to 2009 (16.2 percent) but has only inched up from there in 2010 (16.4 percent) and 2011 (16.6 percent).

The data for this study was gathered as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey from January 2 through May 31, 2011. The survey included a random sample of more than 147,000 adults from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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