Affordable Care Act

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2025 KFF Marketplace Enrollees Survey

About one in three ACA enrollees said they would be “very likely” to look for a lower-premium Marketplace plan If their premium payments doubled, according to a KFF survey conducted in 2025.

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Tracking the Public’s Views on the ACA

While overall opinion of the Affordable Care Act has been more favorable than unfavorable since 2017, there remain deep partisan divides. See how public opinion on the ACA has changed from the inception of the law to the present. This interactive tool highlights key moments when views shifted and trends based on party identification, income, age, gender, and race/ethnicity.

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  • Data Note: Medicaid Managed Care Growth and Implications of the Medicaid Expansion

    Issue Brief

    Most states today rely heavily on risk-based managed care organizations (MCOs) to serve Medicaid beneficiaries. This Data Note discusses the current role of managed care in Medicaid and examines differences in managed care growth between states that expanded Medicaid to low-income adults under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and states that did not expand Medicaid.

  • JAMA Forum: What Might an ACA Replacement Plan Look Like?

    Perspective

    Larry Levitt's January 2017 post explains the logistics of a "repeal and delay" approach to the Affordable Care Act, and outlines key elements of a proposed replacement plan from Rep. Tom Price, who is President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services. The post is now available at The JAMA Forum.

  • Do You Have the Facts About Medicare’s Financial Outlook for the Future?

    News Release

    Medicare is likely to be back on the federal policy agenda this year as Congress and President Trump pursue repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, and potentially consider options to reduce federal spending. When talking about Medicare, the nation’s federal health insurance program for 57 million people age 65 and over and younger people with disabilities, some policymakers often express concern that the program will soon be “bankrupt” and that rising spending is unsustainable.…

  • In Focus: Listening to Enrollees with Affordable Care Act Coverage Who Voted for Trump

    News Release

    As Republicans in Washington pursue efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, what do enrollees in ACA marketplaces and state Medicaid expansions who voted for President Trump want in a health care plan? The Kaiser Family Foundation asked some of them in six focus groups convened in December in Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania -- three with Trump voters enrolled in the ACA marketplaces and three with Trump voters in Medicaid. Focus group participants…

  • Amid Repeal Debate, Public Views Obamacare More Favorably Than Unfavorably

    News Release

    Large Majorities Want to Continue Federal Funding for Medicaid Expansion; Two Thirds Favor Current Federal Role over Block Grants or Per-Capita Caps As President Trump and Congress weigh repealing the Affordable Care Act, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds more Americans viewing the law favorably than unfavorably (48% compared to 42%). This is the highest level of favorability measured in more than 60 Kaiser Health Tracking Polls conducted since 2010. The shift largely reflects…

  • FAQs: What’s the Latest on IPAB?

    Issue Brief

    The Independent Payment Advisory Board was authorized by the Affordable Care Act to help slow the growth in Medicare spending. These FAQs address common questions about IPAB, including how it was designed to operate and the implications of eliminating it.

  • The Other Implication of the CBO Report: Election-Year Pain

    From Drew Altman

    In this Axios column, Drew Altman lays out how the “political pain” from the American Health Care Act would play out over the next two election cycles if passed in its current form, based on the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the House-passed bill.