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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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  • Medical Debt Among Insured Consumers: The Role of Cost Sharing, Transparency, and Consumer Assistance

    Perspective

    This policy insight examines medical debt among insured consumers, exploring how high cost sharing in health insurance plans can contribute, and explaining how greater transparency could help consumers avoid some financial pitfalls. It also provides an update on provisions of the Affordable Care Act meant to increase health plan transparency and bolster consumer assistance.

  • High Health-Care Prices: More Talk Than Action

    From Drew Altman

    In this column for The Wall Street Journal's Think Tank, Drew Altman explores how price is the major factor that distinguishes the cost of our health care system from those in other developed nations, yet most efforts in the U.S. to address health-care costs don’t focus on price much at all.

  • Proposed Medicaid Expansion in Tennessee

    Fact Sheet

    This fact sheet describes Tennessee’s 1115 waiver demonstration project, Insure Tennessee, which expands the State’s Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act.

  • The Coverage Provisions in the Affordable Care Act: An Update

    Issue Brief

    This brief examines the coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act , providing an update on how they have been implemented and assessing their impact five years after the law's enactment. It also discusses key issues for coverage going forward.

  • Medicaid Moving Forward

    Issue Brief

    Medicaid is the nation’s main public health insurance program for people with low incomes, and it is the single largest source of health coverage in the U.S., covering nearly 70 million Americans. Medicaid also finances 16% of total personal health spending in the nation. States design and administer their own Medicaid programs within federal requirements, and states and the federal government finance the program jointly. As a major payer, Medicaid is a core source of…

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2015

    Feature

    As the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marks its fifth anniversary, this month’s poll finds the gap between favorable and unfavorable opinions of the law has narrowed to the closest margin in over two years. Although the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the King v. Burwell case in early March, the majority of the public continues to say they have heard only a little or nothing at all about the case. The survey also includes…

  • Obamacare y Usted: Si tiene una condición preexistente

    Fact Sheet

    Si usted o alguien de su familia tiene una condición de salud preexistente - como una enfermedad cardíaca, asma o inclusive un embarazo - usted encontrará que es mucho más fácil obtener cobertura o cambiar de plan, comenzando en el 2014. Obamacare prohíbe a las aseguradoras negar cobertura a personas con condiciones preexistentes, o condiciones físicas o mentales que existan antes que haya comenzado la cobertura. Las aseguradoras tampoco pueden negarse a pagar por otro…

  • Obamacare y usted

    Fact Sheet

    "Obamacare y usted" es una serie de materiales que explican cómo la Ley de Cuidado de Salud a (Affordable Care Act o ACA en inglés), también llamada “Obamacare,” afecta a diferentes grupos de personas. Haga clic en los links de abajo para aprender más: Si no tienes seguro médico Haga clic para leer en inglés / Click here to read this fact sheet in English Si tienes bajos ingresos y puede calificar para Medicaid Haga clic…