{"id":25983,"date":"2026-05-19T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25983"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T12:47:22","slug":"eroding-aca-enrollment-portends-higher-insurance-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25983","title":{"rendered":"Eroding ACA Enrollment Portends Higher Insurance Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act continues to erode as some customers struggle to make premium payments, with the declining numbers churning market uncertainty for insurers. In response, insurers are likely to raise rates again next year, following this year\u2019s larger-than-typical hikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign-ups were already down in January by about 1.2 million from last year\u2019s record enrollment. For this year, enrollees then faced premiums that increased, on average, by 26%. On top of that, subsidies that help people purchase coverage shrank or vanished. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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