Pew: 22% of Uninsured Have Visited Healthcare.gov

Following the Oct. 1 launch of the health insurance exchanges, 22 percent of uninsured Americans have visited the online marketplaces, and 42 percent intend to do so, according to a Pew Research survey.

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Overall, 14 percent of respondents have visited an exchange website. Of those, 70 percent already have health insurance, mostly through an employer or through a government-sponsored program, and 58 percent reported visiting the exchanges to learn about them, rather than to seriously consider purchasing insurance.

When asked about the exchanges’ functionality, 29 percent said the exchanges are working well or fairly well, and 46 percent said they’re not working well, or not working at all. However, 56 percent of those who had visited an exchange website said the site was easy to use.

Responses were gathered from 1,504 adult Americans between Oct. 9 and Oct. 13.

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