Missourians with employer-provided health insurance drop sharply

Let’s say you were able to build a society from scratch. Chances are, you wouldn’t think to tether health insurance to employment. The United States is the only industrialized country to use such a system, which is more of an accident of history than a thoughtfully considered idea.

The system, such as it is, isn’t working as well as it did a decade ago. The percentage of Americans who get their health insurance through their jobs is in decline. In Missouri, the decrease has been especially sharp.