After pressure from Democrats, consulting firm McKinsey released a statement Monday, along with the full questionnaire about its now-controversial survey predicting a significant drop of ESI coverage due to health reform.

In the statement, McKinsey said they stand by the survey's "integrity and methodology."

In February, McKinsey & Co. commissioned a survey of 1,329 U.S. private sector employers to measure their attitudes about health care reform. The survey, which McKinsey paid for itself as part of its "routine, proprietary research," found 30 percent of respondents will "definitely" or "probably" stop offering employer-sponsored health insurance after 2014.

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