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Fewer health insurers are selling U.S. employers coverage, according to a new U.S. Government Accountability Office report.

The GAO is an arm of Congress that helps lawmakers oversee government programs and spending. A GAO team looked at what happened to the number of insurers operating in states' small-group and large-group markets between 2011 and 2022.

The number of issuers serving large groups in the average state fell to eight in 2022, from 12 in 2011, GAO analysts found.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.