Many uninsured adults have not tried to enroll in Medicaid or marketplace coverage: findings from the September 2020 Coronavirus Tracking Survey

Many uninsured adults have not tried to enroll in Medicaid or marketplace coverage: findings from the September 2020 Coronavirus Tracking Survey

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Author(s):
Haley, Jennifer M., author
Wengle, Erik, author
Contributor(s):
Urban Institute, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : Urban Institute, January 2021
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Health Insurance Exchanges
Insurance Coverage -- statistics & numerical data
Medicaid
Medically Uninsured -- statistics & numerical data
United States
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
The size of the uninsured population declined significantly following implementation of the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 but has grown in recent years. In 2019, an estimated 28.9 million nonelderly adults and children were uninsured, an increase of 2.2 million since 2016 (Tolbert and Orgera 2020). The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in steep increases in unemployment and related losses of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI; Fronstin and Woodbury 2020). Though some losing ESI during the pandemic have enrolled in coverage through Medicaid and the ACA Marketplaces to avoid becoming uninsured, eroding ESI rates mean increases in uninsurance are unlikely to reverse, and could accelerate, during the current recession (Banthin and Holahan 2020; Banthin et al. 2020; Corallo and Rudowitz 2020; Gangopadhyaya, Karpman, and Aarons 2020; Garfield et al. 2020; Karpman and Zuckerman 2020).
Copyright:
Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (16 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
101776276 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101776276