Title
Health Reform Monitoring Survey, Second Quarter 2014 [electronic resource] John Holahan, Sharon K. Long
Summary
In January 2013, the Urban Institute launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a quarterly survey of the nonelderly population, to explore the value of cutting-edge, Internet-based survey methods to monitor the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before data from federal government surveys are available. Topics covered by the sixth round of the survey (second quarter 2014) include self-reported health status, type of and satisfaction with current health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, health care affordability, awareness of key provisions of the ACA, opinions about the ACA, sources of information about the health plans in the ACA health insurance exchanges (healthcare.gov), the importance of various criteria in choosing health insurance plans, whether the respondent enrolled in health insurance through healthcare.gov, and how easy or hard it was to use healthcare.gov. Additional information collected by the survey includes income, employment status, age, education, race, gender, housing type, marital status, home ownership, internet access, ability to read and work with numbers, and sexual orientation. The data file also records whether the respondent reported an ambulatory care sensitive condition or reported a mental or behavioral health condition, and whether the respondent or a family member received unemployment insurance benefits or benefits though the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or child care services or child care assistance from a local welfare agency or case manager.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36045.v2