When people don't have health insurance through an employer or public plan, what do they do?
They don't buy health insurance in the individual market, for the most part.
That's the finding of a new report on individual health insurance purchasers by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Essentially the researchers found that very few low-income people purchased individual policies. But it found pretty much the same at higher levels:
"The evidence presented here suggests, however, that large...
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