Think you’re not eligible for ACA subsidies? Think again.

For four huge groups of Americans, open enrollment for 2022 health plans will offer unprecedented access to premium tax credits.

ON OUR RADAR

CO-OPs short-changed from the start
Day One legal challenges
Refusal to take the ACA’s Medicaid expansion funding
Obstruction of enrollment efforts
Efforts to invalidate premium subsidies
A legal challenge to cost-sharing reductions (which ironically ended up benefitting many enrollees)
Undermining of ACA’s risk corridors
Efforts to repeal the ACA in 2017 (with a successful repeal of the individual mandate penalty)
Texas v. Azar: Another legal challenge with tenuous logic and significant potential ramifications
Regulatory action to destabilize the ACA
GOP refusal to work on bipartisan fixes

Here are the average benchmark premiums for a 40-year-old in a major metropolitan area in the 13 most expensive exchanges in KFF’s analysis:

13 states with highest average benchmark premiums*
1. Alaska: $719	8. Louisiana: $332
2. Vermont: $468	9. New Jersey: $330
3. Wyoming: $426	10. Wisconsin: $326
4. North Carolina: $409	11. Montana: $322
5. New York: $369	12. Connecticut: $318
6. Delaware: $356	13. South Carolina: $314
7. West Virginia: $341