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ACA Marketplace Plans Nationally Are Seeking a Median 18% Premium Increase for 2026

This analysis of insurers’ initial rate filings for Affordable Care Act Marketplace plans in all 50 states and DC finds the median proposed increase for 2026 is 18%, more than double last year’s proposed increase. The analysis also shows proposed rate changes by state and insurer.


Estimates of Additional Uninsured People Across the States

KFF Health Tracking Poll: ACA Enhanced Subsidies

From Drew Altman: Making the Marketplaces Great Again?

ACA Provisions in the 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law

ACA Marketplaces

From Drew Altman: The Spotlight Is on Medicaid Cuts, But the ACA Marketplaces Could See a One-Third Cut in Enrollment

President and CEO Drew Altman shows how proposals contained in the House reconciliation bill could result in a one-third reduction in ACA Marketplace enrollment. “While all eyes are on the big Medicaid cuts being proposed in the House,” he writes, “significant changes are also being proposed that together would dramatically reduce enrollment in the ACA Marketplaces.”

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Marketplace Enrollees with Unpredictable Incomes Could Face Bigger Penalties Under Reconciliation Bill

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Early Insights: Enhanced Premium Tax Credits and 2026 Marketplace Premiums

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Explaining Cost-Sharing Reductions and Silver Loading in ACA Marketplaces

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  • Enrollment Surge Did Not Change Public’s Views on the Affordable Care Act

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    Most Common Reason for Remaining Uninsured is Not Being Able to Find an Affordable Plan; Just 7 Percent Would Rather Pay a Fine than Pay for Coverage As the Supreme Court Considers Challenge, a Majority Supports the Law's Requirements for Contraceptive Coverage, Including for Employers with Religious Objections Despite the news that 8 million people…

  • Visualizing Health Policy: Preventive Services for Women and the ACA

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    This month’s Visualizing Health Policy infographic takes a look at preventive health services for women, including missed opportunities for preventive counseling on risk factors (such as smoking or alcohol) and sexual health issues (such as contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and domestic violence), the effects of lack of insurance on rates of mammograms and other screening…

  • Kaiser Health Policy News Index: April 2014

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    The Kaiser Health Policy News Index is designed to help journalists and policymakers understand which health policy-related news stories Americans are paying attention to, and what the public understands about health policy issues covered in the news. This month’s Index finds that the public followed the missing Malaysia Airlines flight, the shooting at the Fort Hood army post, and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, more closely than any health policy news stories. Among health policy news, the most closely-followed story was coverage of how many people have enrolled in health insurance options under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which just over half the public reports following “very” or “fairly” closely.

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: April 2014

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    Despite the news that 8 million people have signed up for health insurance through the ACA’s new marketplaces, the April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds no change in overall opinion of the law since last month . The most common reason for remaining uninsured is not being able to find an affordable plan. Also, a majority of the public supports the ACA’s requirement that private health insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control and believes that for-profit companies should be subject to this requirement even if their owners object to birth control on religious grounds.

  • Some Malleability In Views On Medicaid Expansion

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    Some Malleability In Views On Medicaid Expansion Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress (conducted January 3-9, 2013)…

  • More Support Than Oppose Their State Expanding Medicaid

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    More Support Than Oppose Their State Expanding Medicaid Download Source Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health, The Public’s Health Care Agenda for the 113th Congress (conducted January 3-9, 2013)…