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Federal courts and regulators have produced some important rulings and rule changes between 2023–2025, but the core ACA ban on denying coverage or charging higher premiums for pre-existing conditions ...
The 2025 reconciliation law and related legislative moves cut or let lapse major ACA supports—KFF and CBO-linked analyses project up to millions of people losing coverage and sharply higher marketplac...
A dozen states and the District of Columbia currently report that they do not apply asset (resource) limits when determining eligibility for Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs); that roster appears in a ...
If enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025, analysts predict large premium increases and meaningful coverage losses concentrated in higher‑cost states and among middle‑income and ol...
The Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) are four state-administered Medicaid “buy‑in” programs—Qualified Medicare Beneficiary (QMB), Specified Low‑Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB), Qualifying Individua...
Available reporting shows two different ways to measure “average” Obamacare (ACA) premium changes: insurers’ requested rate changes (median filings) and the effect of federal subsidy policy on what co...
Three administrative actions scheduled for 2026 stand out as most likely to boost applications for Medicare Savings Programs (): the streamlining/auto‑enrollment and ‑leads rules that lower paperwork ...
Allowing the enhanced ACA premium tax credits to lapse at the end of 2025 would sharply raise net premiums for Marketplace enrollees and, according to multiple respected analyses, cause a substantial ...
Ending the enhanced ACA premium tax credits after 2025 would sharply increase what many marketplace enrollees pay and is likely to cut enrollment; KFF estimates the average enrollee’s annual premium p...
The Social Security cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) for 2026 is 2.8%, which will raise average retirement benefits by about $56 a month starting in January 2026 and SSI payments for nearly 7.5 millio...
If enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire at the end of 2025, independent analyses project large premium and coverage shocks for low- and middle‑income families: KFF estimates average annual premium ...
Green card holders can keep some U.S. benefits if they retire abroad but continuing benefits depends on which program you mean: Social Security and some Medicare parts are tied to work history and res...
Available reporting shows evidence of geographic and demographic variation in who uses SNAP and Medicare, and some analyses note rising SNAP use in Republican-leaning counties; polling finds mixed par...
States with large ACA enrollments face two different—but related—upward price shocks for 2026 coverage: insurers filed average premium rate increases of roughly 26% before subsidy changes, and if enha...
Medicaid expansion shifts most costs to the federal government with a 90% enhanced match for expansion enrollees, reducing state uninsured rates and likely lowering state spending on uncompensated car...
Enhanced ACA (Marketplace) premium tax credits sharply increased enrollment and helped drive record-low uninsured rates; multiple analyses estimate that letting those enhancements expire would raise t...
Available reporting and analyses indicate the biggest immediate, measurable impacts from the recent federal package fall on people who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid—an estimated ~1.4 m...
If Congress does not extend the enhanced premium tax credits, federal estimates and analysts say Marketplace premiums and consumer costs could jump sharply in 2026 — KFF and CNBC project average enrol...
Available reporting estimates that about 24 million people enrolled in ACA marketplace plans for 2025 and that if enhanced premium tax credits expire, models project between roughly 4.8 million and 7....
Lawmakers are proposing reductions in Medicare and related health program expenditures primarily as part of a broader fiscal strategy to pay for major tax-cut proposals and reduce projected federal de...