Health Reform Monitoring Survey, United States, Fourth Quarter 2014

In January 2013, the Urban Institute launched the Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS), a quarterly 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 eight round of the survey (fourth quarter 2014) include self-reported health status, type of and satisfaction with health insurance coverage, access to and use of health care, out-of-pocket health care costs, health care affordability, and awareness of various provisions of the ACA. 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, receipt of government benefits, employment status, and employer size.