Research suggests that uninsured adults are often unaware of Marketplaces and subsidies that help people afford basic health care and coverage due to a lack of access to information about the ARP’s new affordability provisions and difficulties reaching certain populations.
Using data from the Urban Institute’s Health Reform Monitoring Survey, researchers prepared a fact sheet of primary findings:
Without targeted, multilingual outreach and increased efforts to assist uninsured adults with enrollment, both on- and offline, Marketplace knowledge discrepancies could prevent many from taking advantage of newly expanded enrollment opportunities and subsidies under the ARP.
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