Purchasing Health Insurance
» Purchasing Health Insurance, Volume 7, Issue 3, 2007
If shopped for health insurance in the last three years BUT did NOT explore options in a government-organized or sponsored small-business health insurance program.
7a. Why didn’t you consider a government organized or sponsored small-business health insurance program? Was it because you:?
Response | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Didn’t know of any | 60 | ||
2 | Weren’t eligible to participate | 6 | ||
3 | Had better opportunities in the commercial market | 9 | ||
4 | Were not interested in a program organized or sponsored by the government | 21 | ||
5 | (Other) | 3 | ||
6 | (DK/Refuse) | 2 | ||
Total (%) | 101 | |||
N | 356 |
Notes: Sixty (60) percent of small employers who shopped for health insurance in the last three years, but did not explore options in a government-organized or sponsored small-business health insurance program, did not explore that option because they did not know of one available to them (Q#7a).