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Change in February effectuated enrollment, by state, 2025-2026

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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  • ¿Cómo puedo proteger mi información personal al inscribirme en la cobertura del mercado a través de un sitio web que no pertenece al mercado?

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    Aquí tiene algunos consejos para proteger su información personal si decide inscribirse en el mercado de seguros a través de un sitio web externo: Tenga cuidado con las técnicas de venta que lo presionan para tomar decisiones rápidas. Utilice esta herramienta cuidadodesalud.gov para encontrar sitios web de socios de inscripción certificados y aprobados por el mercado de seguros. Tenga cuidado al interactuar con anuncios que ofrecen dinero en efectivo, regalos u otros beneficios. La información…

  • Trabajo con una visa H-2A. ¿Tengo derecho a cobertura en el mercado de seguros?

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    Sí. Los inmigrantes con residencia legal que, de otro modo, serían elegibles para cobertura médica, incluyendo a los "no inmigrantes", como los trabajadores con visa H-2A y aquellos con visas de estudiante, pueden adquirir cobertura en los mercados de seguros. Quienes tengan bajos ingresos y sean elegibles también podrían recibir asistencia con las primas y reducciones en los costos compartidos para reducir el costo de la cobertura. Sin embargo, DACA ya no se considera un…

  • Soy autónomo y mis ingresos varían de un año a otro. ¿Cómo solicito subsidios para las primas si no sé cuáles serán mis ingresos el próximo año?

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    Al solicitar el subsidio para las primas, se le pedirá que calcule sus ingresos esperados para el año siguiente. Un buen punto de partida suele ser considerar sus ingresos de este año o los que declaró en su declaración de impuestos del año anterior. Sin embargo, si sus circunstancias han cambiado desde entonces, debería calcular lo mejor posible sus ingresos para el próximo año. Por ejemplo, si perdió su trabajo recientemente, podría calcular menos ingresos…

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

    Quick Insights

    While the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits expired at the end of 2025, there is no absolute drop-dead date for extending them. An extension could happen even after the deadline to sign up for coverage and be made retroactive to January 1. Open enrollment could also be extended to allow people time to change their plans or allow new people to sign up. ACA enrollees would welcome premium relief whenever it comes.

  • Estoy cubierto por Medicaid, pero me pregunto si puedo cancelar mi Medicaid y comprar uno de los planes de salud que se ofrecen a través del mercado de seguros?

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    Si bien puede adquirir una cobertura del mercado de seguros, si actualmente tiene cobertura de Medicaid o le han informado que cumple los requisitos para recibirla, no podrá acceder a los subsidios para las primas que hacen que la cobertura sea más asequible para las personas con ingresos más bajos. Sin los créditos fiscales del mercado, el costo de un plan probablemente sea inasequible. Medicaid ofrece una cobertura integral sin primas o con primas bajas,…

  • Health Insurance Coverage in 2013: Gains in Public Coverage Continue to Offset Loss of Private Insurance

    Issue Brief

    The recession accelerated the long-standing decline in employer-sponsored health insurance and through 2013 most of the recovery in the uninsured rate was due to increased enrollment in public insurance, primarily Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). With the exception of young adults ages 19 to 25, who are able to remain on their parents’ health plan until age 26 under the ACA, ESI coverage rates for adults and children continued to decrease between…

  • Americans’ Views on the Affordable Care Act Hold Steady, with 43% Now Viewing It Favorably and 42% Unfavorably

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    Few Report Seeing Comparative Information about Health Care Prices and Quality, and Less Than 10% Use It Pocketbook and Consumer Issues Top Public's List of Priorities for the President and Congress, Ahead of Several ACA-Related Issues This month's Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds public opinion on the health care law holding steady and closely divided. The share expressing a favorable view (43%) exceeds the share with an unfavorable view (42%) for the first time since…

  • At Tax Time, No Public Backlash Over Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

    From Drew Altman

    This was published as a Wall Street Journal Think Tank column on April 21, 2015. Tax season has come and gone with no great outbreak of protest about the Affordable Care Act’s least popular provision: the individual mandate. This central element of the ACA was included to help ensure that the individual insurance market would have balanced pools of healthier people and sicker people to help spread insurance risk and keep premiums reasonable. While most of the…