Less than 40 percent of the uninsured population will get health insurance this year, despite the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that says they have to.

That estimate comes from a survey released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.

Researchers said many of these uninsured adults are likely to go without insurance because they wrongly believe they neither qualify for subsidies to buy insurance through the exchanges, nor are eligible for Medicaid.

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