{"id":25987,"date":"2026-05-19T09:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25987"},"modified":"2026-05-19T09:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T13:07:50","slug":"the-average-marketplace-deductible-grew-by-about-1000-per-person-in-2026-with-more-enrollees-shifting-to-higher-deductible-plans-as-enhanced-tax-credits-expired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25987","title":{"rendered":"The Average Marketplace Deductible Grew by About $1,000 Per Person in 2026, With More Enrollees Shifting to Higher-Deductible Plans as Enhanced Tax Credits Expired"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Source – Tammie Smith for The Kaiser Family Foundation published May 19, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace deductible experienced the steepest increase in history\u2014growing by 37% or over $1,000, from $2,759 in 2025 to $3,786 in 2026 as enhanced premium tax credits expired, according to a new KFF analysis. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source – Tammie Smith for The Kaiser Family Foundation published May 19, 2026) The average Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[97,385,238],"class_list":["post-25987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-health-care-finance","tag-aca","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25988,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25987\/revisions\/25988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}