Youth participation low in early Obamacare enrollment

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Youth participation low in early Obamacare enrollment

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/youth-participation-low-early-obamacare-enrollment-210224259--sector.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UEsZMiLOpr1nOV87gwVLyg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-13T225744Z_1_CBREA0C1MGB00_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEALTHCARE-HISPANICS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Corona, patient care coordinator at AltaMed, speaks to a woman during a community outreach on Obamacare in Los Angeles" align="left" title="Corona, patient care coordinator at AltaMed, speaks to a woman during a community outreach on Obamacare in Los Angeles" border="0" /></a>By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new private health plans available under Obamacare drew in fewer young and healthy Americans than needed for the administration to make healthcare reform a market success in the first wave of enrollment, an official report showed on Monday. Twenty-four percent of the 2.2 million people who signed up for private coverage between October 1 and December 28 belonged to a target audience of 18- to 34-year-olds, according to the first administration report to provide a demographic breakdown on enrollment in the new plans offered under President Barack Obama's healthcare law. That compares with a target of closer to 38 percent set before the program's botched October 1 rollout, when administration officials believed that about 2.7 million of a forecast 7 million enrollees for 2014 would be between 18 and 35. Health policy experts say the administration may still get closer to that ratio by the time enrollment closes at the end of March, when more young Americans are expected to sign up to avoid the law's penalty for not having any coverage.</p><br clear="all"/>

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