This report offers an industry by industry comparison of the current pattern of deterioration of employer provided health insurance...blue collar workers have more of an immediate impact, but white collar works are not immune...
Another important finding is that the decline in coverage within jobs is as likely in white-collar occupations, including executives, managers, and workers in professional specialties, as in blue-collar occupations. While these white-collar occupations have relatively high levels of coverage, they saw large declines over this period, demonstrating that even jobs near the top of the occupational ladder are vulnerable to the erosion of the employer-based system.
Once the favorable conditions of the 1990s—slower cost growth and tight job markets—disappeared, coverage rates began to drop within most industries, occupations, and demographic categories. Coverage trends so far in the 2000s have been much more negative. In California (as nationally), some industries experienced dramatic trend reversals between the two periods. For example, in the 2000s, manufacturing, construction, and transportation reversed all of the gains made in the late 1990s, with transportation experiencing an especially dramatic decline.
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