Turning 26 and Struggling to Find Health Insurance? Tell Us About It.

A hard-won provision of the Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their family’s insurance until age 26. But after that, those without employer-based insurance face an array of complicated choices, including whether to shop on the insurance plan exchanges, apply for Medicaid or roll the dice and go uninsured.

Are you a young adult confused about navigating the exchanges used to pick plans? Have you bought a plan on an A.C.A. exchange and found that it didn’t cover care? Have you married or taken a job just to get insurance? Did you decide to go without coverage?

Whatever your story, my team of reporters and I want to hear it. I’m a longtime health journalist who has worked at both The New York Times and KFF Health News, an independent news organization covering health policy.

We’ll read every response to this questionnaire, and we’ll reach out to you if we’d like to learn more about your story. We won’t publish any part of your response without following up with you first, verifying your information and hearing back from you. And I won’t use your contact information for any reason other than to get in touch with you.