There's no doubt that the nation's uninsured rate has dropped since implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (Gallup, for one, estimates that the uninsured rate now sits at 13.4 percent, an all-time low.)
But the remaining uninsured population may be hard to reach — especially when most of them don't know about the mandate requiring them to have health insurance.
Nearly half (46 percent) of those who remain uninsured say they still haven't heard of the individual mandate, the law's provision requiring them to get health insurance. And 43 percent have not heard of the exchanges where they may be eligible to purchase health insurance, according to a new Harris Poll survey conducted on behalf of the nonprofit Transamerica Center for Health Studies.
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