Tired of waiting for the federal government to issue updates on the progress, or lack of it, being made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? Welcome to the Health Reform Monitoring Survey, “a quarterly survey of the nonelderly population that explores the value of cutting-edge Internet-based survey methods to monitor the ACA before data from federal government surveys are available.”
Brought to us by funders and researchers at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, the HRMS survey recently looked at the Obama administration’s latest effort to connect more uninsured Americans with affordable coverage.
That initiative was based on the idea that, if more people realize at tax time that they’ll have to pay a penalty if they don’t have coverage, a certain percentage of those people would acquire coverage if they had a window in which to do so. Thus was created a special second enrollment period for the 2015 coverage year.
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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.
