Are the young and healthy signing up for Obamacare?

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There’s positive interest in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges from the sought-after young and healthy portion of the U.S. population, a report released Thursday shows. But the question remains: Is this must-have demographic actually signing up?

A Commonwealth Fund survey of potentially exchange-eligible people found that during the end of December, 41% of exchange website visitors were between the ages of 19 and 34, and 77% said they were in “good health.” The group polled 622 people across the nation and conducted the interviews Dec. 11 – 29.


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