Plus, focusing on the positive benefits of the law has proven more effective at increasing enrollment -- and decreasing the number of people who'd be penalized -- than emphasizing the negative parts of it, said Anne Filipic, president of Enroll America, a nonprofit promoting Obamacare sign-ups.
Of the three major categories of recruitment sources, advertisements and community outreach were much more effective in driving enrollment compared with clinical facilities.
Other methods, such as telephone and postal surveys, have shown declining response rates in recent years, especially in disadvantaged areas, 37 making the proposed approach the most effective method of enrollment.
The implementing partners in Punjab were considerably effective in enrolling out of school children, but claims regarding the total number of enrollments need to be treated with caution.
Advertising, they said, was showing "diminishing returns" and was no longer an effective way to boost enrollment.
In a recent report on the state of legal education, Moody's, the credit rating service, noted in passing that tuition cuts are not necessarily an effective tactic for improving enrollment.
A study by Professor Parker and David Coady of the food policy research institute suggests that at least in rural sections of Mexico, Progresa is a more cost-effective way to increase enrollment than is building more schools.
Subjects were ineligible if they had had >1 occurrence in the previous 3 months, had immediately life-threatening disease (CDI or other), or had received >24 hours of CDI-effective therapy immediately preceding enrollment.
Under federal rules, an enrollment is not effective until an insurer receives payment of the first month's premium.
Despite this high level of enrollment, gaps in effective coverage persist (16).
