About 3 million fewer people in the United States had Affordable Care Act health insurance plans in February compared with the same time last year, according to new federal data.
In the report released Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggested the 13% drop in enrollment from 22.1 million people in 2025 to 19.2 million this year could be attributed to a federal crackdown on fraudulent or “phantom” enrollment. But health analysts said it was more likely related to the Jan. 1 expiration of federal subsidies, which caused a surge in plan costs that resulted in many people being unable to pay their premiums.
“We know that real people lost their health insurance coverage,” said Cynthia Cox, a vice president and director of the ACA program at the healthcare research nonprofit KFF, citing survey findings on people who had left their plans. “This coverage loss happened at the same time millions of people faced double or even triple digit increases in their premium payments.”
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This title is worded like its a choice. Like, millions of people suddenly stopped thinking healthcare was worth the money.
Millions of Americans are cut-off from affordable healthcare so we can pay for more corporate subsidizes and bombs for Israel.
More accurate title.
The ACA was a bandaid on a tumor anyway. If people need to see how bad capitalists can make the situation before they get over their fear of the word socialism then we’re in for a lot worse than this.
You’re not wrong but the ACA is the only reason I was able to get a new set of lungs and am still here today. Good is not the enemy of great and making healthcare inaccessible kills people.
