A report in November 2021 published on AffordableHealthInsurance.com, a site that helps consumers enroll in health care coverage, showed that men were more likely to remain uninsured after a layoff than women. The report also showed that 56% of Americans who were laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic lost their employer-provided health insurance and 81% of those who lost their health insurance remained uninsured into the fall of 2021, many because they could not afford health insurance, the report said. And some 59% of those who were uninsured said a medical emergency would “very likely” be devastating financially.
