From: Variability of assister availability in health insurance marketplace in the U.S.
Variable | All | Assister provided (n = 1210) | Assister not provided (n = 1051) | P-value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | ||||
Medicaid expansion | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.027 |
 Yes | 726 | 32.1 | 413 | 34.1 | 313 | 29.8 |  |
 No | 1535 | 67.9 | 797 | 65.9 | 738 | 70.2 |  |
Rurality | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | <.001 |
 Metropolitan area | 855 | 37.8 | 568 | 46.9 | 287 | 27.3 |  |
 Micropolitan area | 462 | 20.4 | 277 | 22.9 | 185 | 17.6 |  |
 Rural area | 944 | 41.8 | 365 | 30.2 | 579 | 55.1 |  |
Region | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | <.001 |
 West | 153 | 6.8 | 53 | 4.4 | 100 | 9.5 |  |
 Midwest | 820 | 36.3 | 424 | 35.0 | 396 | 37.7 |  |
 South | 1173 | 51.9 | 648 | 53.6 | 525 | 50 |  |
 Northeast | 114 | 5.0 | 85 | 7.0 | 29 | 2.8 |  |
Marketplace type | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | <.001 |
 State- partnership | 248 | 11.0 | 162 | 13.4 | 86 | 8.2 |  |
 Federally- facilitated | 1993 | 88.2 | 1042 | 86.1 | 951 | 90.6 |  |
 State based | 19 | 0.8 | 6 | 0.5 | 13 | 1.2 |  |