Why are so many Americans who are eligible for help with health insurance not signing up for it? Kaiser Family Foundation set out to discover the answer, and it appears to be: confusion and misunderstanding.
Kaiser authorized a massive, 10,000-person study last fall just before open enrollment to look into who was applying for, and receiving health insurance in America, and who wasn’t.
What they found was that nearly half of the 30 million U.S. adults running around uninsured were eligible for assistance, and even free coverage, by law. About a third of them qualified for marketplace tax credits, and another 18 percent for Medicaid.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
