All of the following are likely consequences of being uninsured in the united states, except:

1. Robin A. Cohen, Emily P. Terlizzi, and Michael E. Martinez, Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2018 (National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 2019).

2. David C. Radley, Sara R. Collins, and Susan L. Hayes, 2019 Scorecard on State Health System Performance: Deaths from Suicide, Alcohol, Drugs on the Rise; Progress Expanding Health Care Coverage Stalls; Health Costs Are a Growing Burden (Commonwealth Fund, June 2019).

3. Radley, Collins, and Hayes, 2019 Scorecard, 2019.

4. Research has found that nearly half of foreign-born Latinos are undocumented immigrants. See Jens M. Krogstad and Mark H. Lopez, Hispanic Immigrants More Likely to Lack Health Insurance than U.S.-Born (Pew Research Center, Sept. 2014).

5. These adults would only be eligible for their state’s existing Medicaid program, which is usually only available to children and very poor parents, or unsubsidized plans in the marketplaces.

6. Three percent of uninsured adults ages 19 to 64 who did not visit the marketplace reported it was because they had, or will have, insurance through another source, 2% reported it was because the marketplaces were not open for enrollment when they needed coverage, and 1% reported they went someplace else to look for health insurance. Respondents who reported “some other reason” cited lack of time and citizenship status, among other reasons.

7. Four percent of adults ages 19 to 64 who were uninsured at the time of the survey or uninsured in the past 12 months and were previously covered by a plan bought on their own or through the marketplace reported they lost or dropped their marketplace coverage because they couldn’t get the health care they needed, 2% reported it was because they didn’t think they needed it, and 1% reported it was because they moved. Respondents who reported “some other reason” cited lack of knowledge about their coverage options, among other reasons.

8. Four percent of adults ages 19 to 64 who were uninsured at the time of the survey or uninsured in the past 12 months and were previously covered by Medicaid reported losing or dropping their Medicaid coverage because they couldn’t afford to pay for it and 3% reported it was because they couldn’t get the health care they needed. Respondents who reported “some other reason” cited a lack of knowledge about their coverage options and the complexity of the enrollment process, among other reasons.

9. Estimate includes three states (Idaho, Nebraska, Utah) that passed ballot initiatives in 2018 to expand Medicaid but have not yet done so. See Commonwealth Fund, “Status of Medicaid Expansion and Work Requirement Waivers,” interactive map, updated July 31, 2019; Rachel Garfield, Kendal Orgera, and Anthony Damico, The Coverage Gap: Uninsured Poor Adults in States that Do Not Expand Medicaid (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, June 2018 and May 2019); and Matthew Buettgens, The Implications of Medicaid Expansion in the Remaining States (Urban Institute, May 2018).

10. Benjamin D. Sommers et al., “Medicaid Work Requirements – Results from the First Year in Arkansas,” New England Journal of Medicine, published online June 19, 2019.

11. Jodi Liu and Christine Eibner, Expanding Enrollment Without the Individual Mandate: Options to Bring More People into the Individual Market (Commonwealth Fund, Aug. 2018).

12. U.S. Senator for California, Dianne Feinstein, “Senators Introduce Legislation to Improve Affordable Care Act, Make Coverage More Affordable for Middle-Class Families,” Press release, June 7, 2017.

13. Commonwealth Fund, “What Is Your State Doing to Affect Access to Adequate Health Insurance?,” interactive map, updated Aug. 22, 2019.

14. Rachel Schwab, Emily Curran, and Sabrina Corlette, Assessing the Effectiveness of State-Based Reinsurance: Case Studies of Three States’ Efforts to Bolster Their Individual Markets (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Nov. 2018).

15. Sara R. Collins and Roosa Tikkanen, “The Many Varieties of Universal Coverage,” interactive, Mar. 6, 2019.

16. Sara R. Collins, “Consumers Shopping for Health Plans Are Left in the Dark by Trump Administration,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, July 19, 2018.

17. Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, and Michelle M. Doty, Following the ACA Repeal-and-Replace Effort, Where Does the U.S. Stand on Insurance Coverage? Findings from the Commonwealth Fund Affordable Care Act Tracking Survey, March–June 2017 (Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 2017).

18. Collins and Tikkanen, “Many Varieties of Universal Coverage,” 2019.

19. Commonwealth Fund, “What Is Your State Doing?,” 2019.

20. Collins and Tikkanen, “Many Varieties of Universal Coverage,” 2019.

21. Timothy S. Jost, “Fixing Our Most Pressing Health Insurance Problems: A Bipartisan Path Forward,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, July 13, 2017.

22. Matthew Buettgens, Lisa Dubay, and Genevieve M. Kenney, “Marketplace Subsidies: Changing The ‘Family Glitch’ Reduces Family Health Spending But Increases Government Costs,” Health Affairs 35, no. 7 (July 2016): 1167–75.

23. Matthew Buettgens, Stan Dorn, and Hannah Recht, More Than 10 Million Uninsured Could Obtain Marketplace Coverage Through Special Enrollment Periods (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Urban Institute, Nov. 2015).

24. Sara R. Collins, Sherry A. Glied, and Adlan Jackson, The Potential Implications of Work Requirements for the Insurance Coverage of Medicaid Beneficiaries: The Case of Kentucky (Commonwealth Fund, Oct. 2018).

25. Benjamin D. Sommers, “Loss of Health Insurance Among Non-Elderly Adults in Medicaid,” Journal of General Internal Medicine 24, no. 1 (Jan. 2009): 1–7.

26. Commonwealth Fund, “What Is Your State Doing?,” 2019.

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