Between 1999 and 2009, the number of small businesses offering health insurance fell from 65% to 59%.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 59% of all firms with between 3 and 199 workers offered health insurance coverage to their employees, down from 65% in 1999.[i]

[i] THE KAISER FAMILY FOUNDATION, Data Source: Kaiser/HRET Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Benefits (2009), available at http://ehbs.kff.org/pdf/2009/7937.pdf (last accessed June 2010).

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