Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, First Quarter 2018

In January 2013, the Urban Institute launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a survey of the nonelderly population, to explore the value of cutting-edge, Internet-based survey methods to monitor the Affordable Care Act (ACA) before data from federal government surveys are available. Topics covered by the 15th round of the survey (first quarter 2018) include self-reported health status, health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, out-of-pocket health care costs, health care affordability, work experience, consumer experiences with health insurance marketplaces, the individual mandate, attitudes toward health plans that are not ACA-compliant, attitudes toward Medicaid work requirements, trust in health care providers, and plan quality ratings. Additional information collected by the survey includes age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, education, race, Hispanic origin, United States citizenship, housing type, home ownership, internet access, income, employment status, and employer size.