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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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  • Inside Deficit Reduction: What Now?

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    The Budget Control Act of 2011 tasked members of a "Super Committee" to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade. Members did not reach an agreement by the November 23 deadline and as a result automatic spending cuts to defense and entitlement programs are set to kick in beginning in January 2013. Panelists at this briefing discussed the impact the sequester will have on the health care sector and how…

  • Quality Care for Less Money: Can Regional Successes Go National?

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    On February 15, the Kaiser Family Foundation hosted an event featuring a PBS documentary with former Washington Post correspondent T.R. Reid – U.S. Health Care: The Good News – which explores efforts to provide low-cost, quality health care in the U.S. The film looks at variations in health spending across the country and showcases efficient health care delivery systems, like Grand Junction in Colorado and Group Health in Seattle, suggesting that these communities demonstrate that…

  • My family and I are offered health benefits through my job, but we can’t afford to enroll. My employer pays 100% of the premium for workers, but contributes nothing toward the cost of adding my spouse a...

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    Yes, you can. Since your employer pays 100% of the premium to cover you, you will not be eligible for premium tax credits, but your spouse and children may be eligible for financial assistance on the Marketplace, depending on the affordability of your employer’s family coverage. If the premium contribution you would have to pay to cover your spouse and kids under your employer plan is more than 9.96% of your household income in 2026,…

  • Soy un nuevo inmigrante y no tengo cuenta en el banco. ¿Puede la aseguradora obligarme a abrir una para tener débito automático de los pagos?

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    No. Las aseguradoras que ofrecen cobertura en el mercado individual o en el mercado de seguros de ACA deben proporcionar una variedad de métodos de pago y no pueden exigir que un consumidor pague mediante retiros bancarios automáticos (a veces llamados transferencias electrónicas de fondos o EFT). Las normas federales requieren que la aseguradora acepte cheques en papel, giros postales y todas las tarjetas de débito prepagadas de uso general, así como EFT. Estos métodos…

  • ¿Todos los beneficios cubiertos por los planes del mercado son los mismos? ¿Cómo puedo comparar?

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    Aunque se requiere que todos los planes de salud del mercado cubran las diez categorías de beneficios de salud esenciales, las aseguradoras en muchos estados tienen flexibilidad para modificar la cobertura de algunos de los servicios específicos dentro de cada categoría. Cualquier modificación debe ser aprobada por el mercado antes de que se puedan ofrecer los planes. Todos los planes de salud deben proporcionar a los consumidores un Resumen de Beneficios y Cobertura (SBC). El…

  • A Dose of Reality in the Virtual World of Health IT

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    The Alliance for Health Reform hosted a September 28 briefing to discuss electronic health records (EHRs), and the progress of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. Speakers explored such questions as: How does health information technology fit in the strategy for health care delivery transformation? What role are EHRs playing in care coordination, accountable care organizations and other innovations? What are the special challenges facing solo and small physician practices?…

  • Pulling it Together: Business and Health Care Costs

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    Hidden away on page 218 of our annual Employer Health Benefits Survey is a table that shows what employers think of the main strategies they have to control health care costs.  More specifically, the table shows what the person in the firm responsible for its health benefits thinks, which is whom we survey.  The short answer is, employer confidence in their own ability to control costs is not high. Not more than about a quarter…

  • Chartpack: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — December 2009

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    This document contains the chartpack from the December Health Tracking Poll. The survey was designed and analyzed by public opinion researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation and was conducted December 7 through December 13, 2009, among a nationally representative random sample of 1,204 adults ages 18 and older. Telephone interviews conducted by landline (801) and cell phone (403, including 111 who had no landline telephone) were carried out in English and Spanish. The margin of…

  • December Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Public Again Divided on ACA, Independents Polarized, and Exchanges Widely Popular

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    According to the December Kaiser Health Tracking Poll, the October downturn in the share of Americans with a favorable view of the health reform law has been fully reversed in December and overall opinion on the law returned to the roughly even split seen for most of 2011. Forty-three percent of Americans expressed unfavorable views of the law in December, while 41 percent had favorable views. Partisan divisions persist and the findings suggest not only…