Researchers from University of Colorado Denver Report on Findings in Population Health (Minority-owned small businesses and employer-sponsored health insurance): Health and Medicine – Population Health

2025 SEP 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily -- Data detailed on Health and Medicine - Population Health have been presented. According to news originating from Denver, Colorado, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI) is a primary source of health coverage for working-aged adults in the U.S. Although most larger employers offer ESI, 46% of U.S. workers are employed by small businesses, which offer ESI at less than half the rate of large businesses.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Colorado Denver, “We extend prior research by examining detailed racial/ethnic ownership of small businesses and trends in offering ESI throughout the rollout of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) small business policies. We use restricted data from the Census Bureau’s 2012 Survey of Business Owners and the 2014-2016 waves of the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs. Binary logistic regression allows us to examine whether the racial/ethnic composition of the business owners is associated with offering ESI, within each of the four waves of data. Finally, we plot the fitted percentage of small businesses that offer ESI across time and racial/ethnic ownership status, while adjusting for owner and firm characteristics. The majority of small businesses do not offer ESI. Further, disparities are substantial. In 2012, just 41% of White-owned small businesses offer ESI, compared to 26% of Black-, 26% of Asian-, and 23% of Hispanic-owned small businesses. These disparities fail to improve across years when the ACA incentives were implemented.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Policies that recognize and address differences in ESI among small businesses, especially among Black-, Asian-, and Hispanic-owned small businesses, could strengthen healthcare systems and access to care in communities where minority-owned small businesses and their employees are located.”

For more information on this research see: Minority-owned small businesses and employer-sponsored health insurance. Ssm-population Health, 2025;31:101855. Ssm-population Health can be contacted at: Elsevier Sci Ltd, 125 London Wall, London, England.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Patrick M. Krueger, University of Colorado Denver, Dept. of Health & Behavioral Sciences, 1201 Larimer St, Denver Co., 80217, United States.

The publisher’s contact information for the journal Ssm-population Health is: Elsevier Sci Ltd, 125 London Wall, London, England.

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