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2025 KFF Marketplace Enrollees Survey

If their premium payments double, about one in three ACA enrollees say they would be “very likely” to look for a lower-premium Marketplace plan.

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There is No Drop-Dead Date for an ACA Tax Credit Extension, But Coverage Losses Will Mount as the Clock Ticks

A discharge petition in the House paves the way for a vote on a three-year extension of the tax credits, which would provide ACA enrollees premium relief whenever it comes. While there is still time to extend the enhanced tax credits, with each passing day, more and more ACA Marketplace enrollees are going to drop their health insurance when faced with eye-popping increases in their premium payments, writes KFF’s Larry Levitt.

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Affordable Care Act Signups Are Down, But Still an Incomplete Picture

Data from CMS may not fully show how much the expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits has affected enrollment in the ACA Marketplaces. The extent of enrollment changes likely won’t be known until this summer, when effectuated enrollment data are typically released.
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Marketplace Enrollment Snapshot for Open Enrollment 2026

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Higher Premium Payments or Higher Deductibles: The ACA's Tradeoffs

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Number of Insurers in the Individual Insurance Marketplaces

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Competition Increased in Individual Market But Fell in Fully Insured Group Markets

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  • Public Opinion on Gender Rating

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    With the Republican presidential primaries wrapping up, a barrage of new television commercials, radio ads, and fundraising emails has marked the start of the general election campaign. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be a mainstay election topic for candidates from both major parties.

  • Overall Public Support for the Health Reform Law Is Steady from June

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    The July Kaiser Health Tracking Poll indicates overall public support for the health reform law is steady from June, while unfavorable views of the law have trended downward somewhat. Half the public (50%) now expresses a favorable view of the law, while 35 percent say they have an unfavorable opinion (down from 41% in June).

  • KFF September Tracking Poll Looks at Health Reform and the Elections

    Perspective

    The tug of war for public opinion on health reform continues this month, with approval and disapproval remaining in the same relatively narrow band each has occupied since passage even as favorable views regain a small upper hand, 49 percent favorable vs. 40 percent unfavorable.

  • KFF Explores Health Reform and the Tea Party Movement

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    With much media discussion of the role that the Tea Party will play in the upcoming congressional midterm elections, the Kaiser Family Foundation took a closer look at Tea Party supporters using its most recent Health Tracking Poll data from September.

  • New Tracking Poll Finds Americans Remain Divided Over Health Law

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    With the November midterm elections just weeks away, Americans remain chronically divided over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but most say that their feelings – pro and con -- about the health reform law are not a dominant factor in how they will vote for Congress or whether they will go to the…

  • Health Affairs Issue Focuses on Health Reform

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    The June 2010 issue of the journal Health Affairs is dedicated to health reform, and "begins to tackle the hundreds of implementation issues inherent in health reform and offers prescriptions for averting trouble," according to Editor-in-Chief Susan Dentzer.