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  • Signing Up for Marketplace Coverage Remains a Challenge for Many Consumers

    Policy Watch

    As open enrollment begins for Marketplace plans, this Policy Watch provides information about consumer experiences with Marketplace sign up from the 2023 KFF Consumer Survey. Data from the survey show that Marketplace sign up has been a challenge to many consumers---often more complicated than enrollment in other kinds of health insurance. The Policy Watch also spotlights efforts to address common enrollment problems such as option overload and transitioning to Marketplace coverage from other forms of coverage.

  • For ACA Enrollees, How Much Premiums Rise Next Year is Mostly up to Congress

    Policy Watch

    Most customers with coverage through Affordable Care Act's marketplaces will face big premium increases next year if Congress doesn’t extend the temporary enhanced tax credits included in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021. If the outcome isn’t clear by summer, fall open enrollment could be a mess.

  • What would ACA Subsidies Have Been in 2022 if COVID-19 Relief Had not passed?

    Interactive

    This calculator is for illustration purposes and shows the tax credits and premiums that marketplace customers would have paid in 2022 if not for the enhanced subsidies included in the 2021 COVID relief legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act, (ARPA). The enhanced subsidies expire at the end of the year.

  • Five Things to Know about the Renewal of Extra Affordable Care Act Subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act

    Policy Watch

    As part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Senate recently passed a three-year extension (through 2025) of enhanced subsidies for people buying their own health coverage on the Affordable Care Act Marketplaces. The enhanced subsidies increase the amount of financial help available to those already eligible and also newly expand subsidies to middle-income people, many of whom were previously priced out of coverage. Here’s what to know about the likely renewal of these subsidies: