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8 Things to Watch for 2026 ACA Open Enrollment

The ACA Marketplace Open Enrollment season begins November 1, and with it comes looming changes to the enhanced premium tax credits, increases in out-of-pocket premiums, and changes to Marketplace enrollment and eligibility rules.

Timely insights and analysis from KFF staff

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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.


ACA Premium Payment Increases Across Congressional Districts

How Much Premiums are Going Up for Small Businesses in 2026

Is it Too Late for ACA Insurers to Change Their Premiums?

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  • What’s in There? An Ask-the-Experts Overview of the Health Reform Law

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    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 are now law. But many people have questions about the new reforms. To answer questions about the major provisions of these two laws, the Alliance for Health Reform and The Commonwealth Fund sponsored an April 16 briefing.

  • Medicaid and CHIP Health Reform Implementation Timeline

    Issue Brief

    This timeline highlights the implementation dates for provisions in the new health reform law that are related to Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. While major expansions of Medicaid are set to occur in 2014, many other key provisions in the health reform law become effective between 2010 and 2014. Timeline (.

  • Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program Provisions in the New Health Reform Law

    Issue Brief

    This brief compares the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program provisions in the new health reform law with pre-reform law governing those programs. The analysis focuses on Medicaid coverage and financing changes; how Medicaid and CHIP will interface with a new health insurance exchange and other Medicaid benefits and access changes.

  • Pulling It Together: Implementation Is Forever

    Perspective

    Now that historic health reform legislation is law, everyone is rightfully focused on implementation. There are two very different ways to look at implementation. One is the more legalistic worm's eye view, which sees implementation largely as the process of putting into effect what was written in the law.

  • Medicaid Beneficiaries and Access to Care

    Fact Sheet

    The health reform law relies on a large expansion of Medicaid to reach many low-income uninsured people, many of them adults. This fact sheet summarizes Medicaid beneficiaries' experience in obtaining access to care, a subject that is of keen interest in view of the planned expansion of the program.

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — April 2010

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    The first Kaiser Health Tracking Poll fielded since the passage of health reform last month finds that 8 in 10 Americans know that President Obama signed the legislation into law.

  • Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — March 2010

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    The March Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds the public still divided on health reform legislation, with 46 percent of Americans backing the reform proposals on Capitol Hill, 42 percent opposing them and 12 percent saying they aren't sure. Six in 10 Americans say they have heard little or nothing about budget reconciliation.