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How Has ACA Marketplace Enrollment Changed Across States in 2026?

ACA Marketplace enrollment fell this year in every state except New Mexico, which was the only state to fully replace the enhanced premium tax credits that expired last year with a state-funded subsidy, according to a new KFF analysis of effectuated enrollment data. The Marketplace enrollment decline—the first in seven years—follows several years of rapid enrollment growth and coincides with the end of the enhanced federal subsidies.

How Much and Why ACA Marketplace Premiums Are Going Up in 2027

ACA Marketplaces insurers are proposing a median premium increase of 15% in 2027, according to KFF’s updated analysis of 276 insurers with publicly available filings across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This is the second consecutive year of double-digit premium hikes. Last year’s median nationwide proposed rate change was 18%, and the median finalized rate change was 20%. While this proposed rate change is lower than last year, it represents the second-highest requested rate change since 2018, as premium growth had been relatively flat in this market for several years.

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Did the Affordable Care Act Make Health Care More Affordable?

The expiration of the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits at the start of 2026, combined with rising insurer premiums, put a spotlight on health care affordability that extends beyond Marketplace enrollees. KFF’s Cynthia Cox examines the ACA’s record and the broader underlying question it raises: what’s a fair price for Americans people to pay for health care?

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  • ¿Puedo aplicar para planes del mercado y subsidios en otras plataformas de internet?

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    Sí, en algunos casos. La administración Trump permite, y ahora promueve, la venta de planes del mercado a través de sitios de internet privados. Estas opciones a veces se describen como sitios de "inscripción directa". Las plataformas privadas pueden ser operadas por aseguradoras como Blue Cross, Ambetter o Molina. Otras son operadas por corredores de seguros (brokers, en inglés) que son agentes de seguros de salud. Ejemplos de estas segundas opciones pueden ser: GetInsured.com, Health…

  • He observado que se están vendiendo planes de corto plazo por fuera del mercado y que son más económicos. ¿Qué es un plan de corto plazo?

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    Los planes de salud de "duración limitada” están diseñados para cubrir una interrupción temporal en la cobertura médica, como cuando una persona se encuentra entre dos empleos. La duración máxima de los planes de corto plazo varía según el estado. Los planes de corto plazo deben informar a los consumidores que estos planes “NO son una cobertura médica integral”: a menudo no cuentan con las protecciones para el consumidor que se encuentran en los planes…

  • ¿Debería reclamar el subsidio por adelantado, al final de año, o ambos?

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    Eso depende de usted. Puede hacer que su crédito fiscal anual para las primas se pague directamente a su plan de salud cada mes para reducir su prima mensual de inmediato. O, si puede pagarlo, puede pagar la prima completa del plan de salud usted mismo por adelantado y cobrar el subsidio en una suma global el próximo año cuando presente su declaración de impuestos. O bien, puede hacer que parte del crédito fiscal se…

  • The Public’s Policy Agenda for the 113th Congress: Briefing and Panel Discussion

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    As the 113th Congress is sworn in, and President Barack Obama begins his second term of office, a comprehensive new Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health survey queried the public about their priorities for, and views on, a wide range of health and health policy issues. These include issues that will preoccupy federal lawmakers, such as the role of Medicare in the deficit reduction debate, as well as issues currently being…

  • Health Care on the Brink of the Fiscal Cliff

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    The Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Family Foundation present a November 16 briefing to discuss the components of this key policy crossroads with a particular emphasis on the implications for health programs and the health care industry. Automatic cuts would not apply to Medicaid, but Medicare providers would experience 2 percent payment cuts. The reductions would likely be larger for discretionary health programs, such as those funded as part of the National Institutes…

  • Behavioral Health: Can Primary Care Help Meet the Growing Need?

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    The health reform law has specific provisions covering mental health and substance use conditions, as well as general provisions to benefit those in need of behavioral health services. While addressing unmet needs, the reform law provisions raise new challenges. Given their budgetary constraints, will states be able to expand capacity to meet the demands of increased enrollment? Will sacrifices in other benefits and services be needed in order to provide mental health parity? Will the…

  • Making Health Care Work for American Families: Medicaid and Access to Care

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    Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and executive director of the Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, testified March 24, 2009, before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health as part of a hearing entitled “Making Health Care Work for American Families: Access to Care." Rowland, appearing as part of a panel, addressed why Medicaid can be a platform for health care reform and can be instrumental in efforts…