title: Residential High-Speed Internet Among Those Likely to Benefit From an Online Health Insurance Marketplace.
abstract: Using data from the 2013 American Community Survey, we found that 24.3 million people (about 1 in 4) who were either eligible for Medicaid/Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) or appeared likely to shop for Qualified Health Plan (QHP) lacked residential high-speed Internet. Specifically, 28.6% or 18.9 million people eligible for Medicaid/CHIP and 17.1% or 5.5 million people who appeared likely to shop for a QHP did not have high-speed Internet in the home. For both the Medicaid/CHIP eligible and those likely to shop for a QHP, the proportion of people living in households without Internet varied substantially by race, geography, and other socio-demographic characteristics.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA mhb@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Michel H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Boudreaux
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Gilbert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gonzales
authors.affiliation: State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blewett
authors.affiliation: State Health Access Data Assistance Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
authors.forename: Brett
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fried
authors.affiliation: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Pinar
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Karaca-Mandic
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D065326:Children's Health Insurance Program / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D062265:Health Insurance Exchanges / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007802:Language; D008484:Medicaid / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Affordable Care Act; Digital Divide; Health Insurance; Internet; Online Health Insurance Marketplace