(Bloomberg) — Getting new people signed up for Obamacare will get harder this year as the program tries to access poorer, younger, harder-to-reach individuals, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said Tuesday.
There are about 10.5 million uninsured Americans who are eligible for coverage under the Affordable Care Act and who haven't enrolled yet, Burwell said during a speech at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington.
Many are confused about how subsidies the law created to help people afford insurance can be accessed, Burwell said.
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