Conclusion
Marketplace enrollment is expected to increase due to wide-scale unemployment and the loss of employer-sponsored insurance from the COVID-19 crisis and associated economic fallout. Researchers say the data are a baseline for marketplace enrollment prior to entering the period shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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