Gallup might use a broader definition of "young adult" than the Commonwealth Fund but came to the same conclusion: They don't know much about the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

When Gallup surveyed 1,021 U.S. adults ages 18 and older in mid-August, it found only 15 percent of all participants "were very familiar" with PPACA. Eighteen percent said they were "not too familiar," and 12 percent admitted they were "not all familiar" with the law.

Just 10 percent of the participants ages 18 to 34 said they were very familiar with the law, 53 percent said they were somewhat familiar with it, and 36 percent said they were not too familiar with it or not at all familiar with it.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.