Medicaid coverage losses will deepen as the work requirement comes into effect nationwide in 2027. The harder the rules are for people to navigate and states to implement, the more people will lose coverage – including many with serious illnesses. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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Wyden, Warnock Lead Senate Democrats in Call to Stop Red Tape Requirements in Medicaid

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Millions of people are losing health coverage due to Republican policy changes, and the numbers will continue to grow. See our new interactive state tracker featuring 8 different series of downloadable Medicaid and ACA marketplace data. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Health Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy Changes

Some 2.2 million fewer people are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces as of February 2026 compared to December 2025, after Republicans chose to not extend premium tax credit...

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🧵No one should be forced to sleep outside in a nation as wealthy as ours. Yet, one year ago today, Pres. Trump issued an executive order (EO) calling on federal agencies to abandon effective homelessness solutions in favor of punishing people who have nowhere safe to sleep.

New CBO report projects that federal subsidies for employer coverage will be 6X larger than ACA marketplace premium tax credits over 2026-2036. [1/5] www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance, 2026 to 2036

Federal subsidies for health insurance total $33.6 trillion over the 2026–2036 period in CBO and JCT’s projections. Those estimated subsidies grow from 7.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2...

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Claire Heyison@claireheyison.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nearly every state saw ACA marketplace enrollment drop after the PTC enhancements expired, but some states fared worse than others. See how your state was impacted: www.cbpp.org/blog/aca-mar...

Last month, SCOTUS upheld birthright citizenship, but now the Trump Admin. is finding another way to take aim at the U.S.-born children of immigrant parents with its cruel new “public charge” rule.

Another year of double-digit premium increases are expected in 2027, right when Medicaid and other health care cuts ramp up. And this comes after ~3 million people already dropped #ACA marketplace coverage as premium tax credit enhancements expired. youtu.be/KthkxUfhW-c?...

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New CMS data confirms large enrollment drops after Congressional Republicans and President Trump let PTC enhancements expire last year. ~3 million people dropped coverage between 2025 and 2026. More will likely follow suit as premiums stack up throughout the year. www.cbpp.org/blog/nearly-...

Nearly 3 Million Fewer People Secured Marketplace Coverage After Republican Health Care Cuts, New Data Show

This is the largest drop in effectuated enrollment since the ACA marketplaces were established.

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Sadly, this is only the start. Republican health care cuts will take away coverage from millions. Nearly Three Million Fewer People Enrolled in Marketplace Coverage After Affordability Cuts www.cbpp.org/media/76680

Nearly Three Million Fewer People Enrolled in Marketplace Coverage After Affordability Cuts

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New data show that #ACA marketplace enrollment fell by ~3 million people as premiums spiked following the failure of Congressional Republicans to extend PTC enhancements. This is Feb 2026 data - expect further coverage loss as the year goes on and monthly premiums pile up.

As some House Rs call for reconciliation 3.0, many want to expand health savings accounts. But HSAs mainly benefit higher-income people, and they do little to improve affordability for those struggling the most with health costs. read more by @nicolerapfogel.bsky.social www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...

Five Reasons HSAs Aren’t the Answer to the Health Care Affordability Crisis

In the wake of their actions that have worsened health care affordability, President Trump and some in Congress have pushed expanding health savings accounts (HSAs). The problem is HSAs are not the an...

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New USDA data confirm as many as 36 states will soon face massive new costs to continue SNAP – increasing the risk that even more struggling families could soon lose food assistance & some states could even end SNAP altogether. Congress must delay this cost shift for all states.

The Trump Administration's analysis justifying its #Medicaid work requirement rule is deeply flawed. @gidlukens.bsky.social explains how the analysis ignores evidence showing work requirements cause large coverage losses while failing to increase employment. www.cbpp.org/research/hea... ----

Analysis Justifying Trump Administration’s Medicaid Work Requirement Rule Is Deeply Flawed

The 2025 reconciliation law instituted a harmful policy taking Medicaid coverage away from people not meeting a harsh work requirement, and the Trump Administration recently finalized a rule that...

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Directly funding cost-sharing reductions (CSRs), as Republicans are apparently considering, would INCREASE out-of-pocket premiums for millions of #ACA marketplace enrollees, cut funding by tens of billions of $, and leave hundreds of thousands of ppl uninsured.

The extra red tape required for the medical frailty exemption will greatly increase coverage loss from #Medicaid work requirements. Even before the rule, CBO estimated that 5.3 million people would lose their coverage and become uninsured. tinyurl.com/urbvk466

How sick is sick enough? New Medicaid work rule worries patient advocates, states.

Trump administration wants ill recipients to prove they can’t work every six months. Doctors, advocates and state officials wonder how.

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Even as more people across our nation are struggling to afford gas, groceries, health care, and housing, Congressional Republicans are prioritizing the Administration's violent & callous detention and deportation machine over helping people across our nation afford basic needs.

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough. The Trump administration’s new interim final rule makes a bad policy worse...here's a little more on why: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Administration’s Last-Minute Restrictions Likely to Worsen Impact of Medicaid Work Requirement

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health...

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Yesterday, @DrOzCMS falsely claimed that the ACA marketplace is full of “phantom” enrollees, referencing a number presumably pulled from Paragon paper that repeats the same flawed and thoroughly debunked analysis as its previous iterations. tinyurl.com/5n6cz7da

Setting the Record Straight on Premium Tax Credit Enhancements

Enhancements to premium tax credits (PTCs) cut out-of-pocket premiums by more than half, on average, for over 20 million Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace enrollees, making health care more...

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In their release of the #Medicaid work requirements rule, CMS touts an ASPE report as evidence that work requirements increase employment. In fact, the report simply assumes “illustrative” impacts that are “not necessarily what is or will occur in the real world”. tinyurl.com/2czhrtcw

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough – taking away coverage from millions who don’t show either that they’re working enough or are exempt. But the Trump administration’s final rule makes a bad policy worse.

We just moved a step closer to a Medicaid work requirement, a major cut made by last year’s Republican reconciliation law that will take away health coverage from millions of people. The Trump administration issued a rule that makes bad policy even worse. www.cms.gov/newsroom/fac...

NEW: In just the 12 states with available data, the number of children receiving SNAP has fallen by more than 700,000 since H.R. 1's unprecedented SNAP cuts were enacted last July — despite claims from Republican lawmakers that kids wouldn't lose benefits.

Sharp Drop in Number of Children Receiving SNAP Food Assistance Under New Federal Law

While cutting SNAP eligibility for children was not a stated target of H.R. 1’s proponents, the cost shift and access barriers are resulting in serious losses of food assistance for low-income childre...

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Make no mistake: CBO continues to estimate huge cuts to #Medicaid from OBBBA, last year’s reconciliation bill, despite Trump Admin officials’ false claims otherwise. In fact, CBO projects that 7 million ppl will lose #ACA Medicaid expansion coverage from 2025 to 2032.

Following the expiration of PTC enhancements, #ACA marketplace plan selections dropped by 1.2 million during the 2026 open enrollment period. A new analysis suggests that millions more will drop coverage over the year as enrollees confront higher monthly premiums. www.wakely.com/blog/who-pai...

Who Paid, and Who Stayed? Early 2026 Enrollment Trends in the Individual Market - Wakely

A new report from Wakely Consulting Group, an HMA Company, models changes to the 2026 ACA market enrollment due to the loss of federal subsidies. Findings

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Last July, the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. Today, we're releasing a tracker of how many people in each state are losing the SNAP benefits they need to afford groceries. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

@nicolerapfogel.bsky.social digs into the 2026 #ACA marketplace open enrollment data: enrollees shifted into higher deductible plans, yet out-of-pocket premiums still way up.

Nicole Rapfogel@nicolerapfogel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Following the expiration of enhanced PTCs, new 2026 open enrollment data show marketplace enrollees are paying much more for coverage—even as they shift into lower-premium but less generous plans that leave them with higher deductibles when they need care. 🧵

HHS wasted taxpayer dollars to find that people enrolled were eligible, a new KFF article shows: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump’s Hunt for Undocumented Medicaid Enrollees Yields Few Violators - KFF Health News

Federal health officials have ordered states to reverify the immigration status of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees. After seven months, findings from five states show the reviews have unco...

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The data are pretty striking...people are paying much more and getting much less

Sarah Lueck@sarahl202.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#ACA marketplace signups are down, and many people are paying higher costs and getting skimpier coverage, according to new federal data. A major reason: Republicans in Congress and the Trump Administration let premium tax credit enhancements expire. www.cms.gov/files/docume...

This week’s 16th anniversary of the #ACA marks an unfortunate turning point for ACA marketplaces: More people are likely to go uninsured because of affordability concerns and many will face higher health costs, as federal policy decisions that increase premiums and red tape take hold.

New from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social: Medicaid work requirements & 6-mo. redeterminations under OBBBA will cause ~5-10 million people to lose their Medicaid coverage in 2028. That’s 27-55% of people subject to work requirements. tinyurl.com/4wnysptw

Projected Reductions in Medicaid Expansion Enrollment Under OBBBA’s Work Requirements and Six-Month Redeterminations

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) established new work requirements and increased the frequency of eligibility redeterminations for adults covered by th…

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