The Providence Journal reported that the young population is one of the hardest to “sell” on health insurance.
Here are three takeaways:
1. Young adults make up a third of Rhode Island’s total uninsured population.
2. On a national level, a study by the Urban Institute found that 16.7 percent of the country’s uninsured adults population didn’t want health coverage. The biggest reason behind that was a perception the coverage was unaffordable.
3. Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation — a nonprofit that analyzes data around uninsured adults — said affordability remains the biggest reason behind why the uninsured stay uninsured.
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