Employer-sponsored insurance breaks to cost $268B this year

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The total cost of all those receiving subsidized health insurance will exceed $600 billion this year, with the majority of the American public receiving subsidized health insurance being employed full time. Only a only a small number are obtaining subsidized insurance through an insurance exchange, and about the same number have no insurance this year.

That’s what a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis of the American health insurance landscape says. The CBO report only considered those under age 65. It found the next largest group with insurance, and with subsidies, were the one-quarter of under-65 Americans enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.