As the Trump administration pushed to repeal the ACA this year, it also made a $5 million cut to outreach funding for the federal health insurance marketplace. But state-based marketplaces took a different approach, with several boosting their outreach efforts. Georgetown University’s Emily Curran and colleagues compare outreach and enrollment in the federal and state-based marketplaces in 2017.
2017 Federal and State Marketplace Trends Show Value of Outreach
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