Third ACA Sign-Up Period to Focus on 10.5 Million Uninsured Americans
Source: The Washington Post
As a third open-enrollment season nears under the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration plans to focus on 10.5 million uninsured Americans, trying to persuade them to sign up for coverage that they have ignored or rejected in the past.
According to estimates released Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, that is the size of a group — disproportionately young adults or minorities — that lacks health coverage and qualifies to buy health plans through insurance exchanges created by the law.
Burwell and other senior federal health officials said that survey findings and two years of experience with the exchanges have given federal health officials a clearer picture of who remains uninsured, where they tend to live and which themes are effective in marketing the need for people to get insurance.
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Author: Ross Rogers
