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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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  • 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...

    FAQs

    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?

    FAQs

    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?

    FAQs

    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…

  • ¿Pueden cobrarme más por mi edad?

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    Sí, en la mayoría de los estados se puede, dentro de los límites. Las reglas federales les permiten a las aseguradoras cobrar a los adultos mayores (por ejemplo, en sus 60) hasta tres veces la prima que cobrarían a los adultos más jóvenes (por ejemplo, en sus primeros años de la década del veinte). Este límite en la clasificación de edad se aplica a todas las pólizas de seguro de salud que no sean de…

  • Employer Family Health Premiums Rise 4 Percent to $17,545 in 2015, Extending a Decade-Long Trend of Relatively Moderate Increases

    News Release

    Since 2010, Deductibles for All Workers Have Risen Almost Three Times as Fast as Premiums and About Seven Times as Fast as Wages and Inflation Facing New Requirements, Few Employers Make Changes to Workers' Hours Menlo Park, Calif. – Single and family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 4 percent this year, continuing a decade-long period of moderate growth, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2015 Employer Health Benefits…

  • Even Supporters May Not Understand Medicare-for-All

    From Drew Altman

    In this Axios column, Drew Altman shows that the majority of supporters don’t know how Medicare-for-all works, with both positive and negative implications for support if they knew more.

  • Tracking the Role of Health Care in the 2020 Election: What Do The Polls Tell Us

    Perspective

    In this February 2020 post for The JAMA Health Forum, Mollyann Brodie and Ashley Kirzinger examine the role health care has played in the primary election to date, what the polling data says about the issue, including Medicare-for-all and a public option, and what to expect from the issue during the rest of the 2020 election campaign.

  • April Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: Core Views on ACA Remain Stable After Oral Arguments

    Perspective

    The increased public attention to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) generated by the Supreme Court’s consideration of the law did not meaningfully change the public’s opinion of the law overall or of the specific provision at the heart of the legal case against it, the individual mandate. Forty-two percent say they have a favorable opinion of the law this month and 43 percent have an unfavorable one, a division virtually unchanged from March. Similarly, the…