ACA exchange enrollment has dropped by a whopping 25% in Missouri since Congressional Republicans allowed the enhanced federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.
Initial signups during Open Enrollment were already down over 12% vs. OEP 2025...but effectuated enrollment in was 18% year over year as of January and 25% lower in February. That's over 86,000 Missourians who have lost their individual market healthcare coverage.
Here's what this looks like visually, with both 2025 and 2019 (the last pre-COVID year, which didn't include the enhanced subsidies) included for comparison:
ACA exchange enrollment has dropped by more than 26% in Mississippi since Congressional Republicans allowed the enhanced federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.
Initial signups during Open Enrollment were already down 7.3% vs. OEP 2025...but effectuated enrollment was 16.9% lower year over year in January and 26.4% lower as of February.
That's over 68,000 Mississippians who already lost coverage in just the first two months of the year...a number which has almost certainly continued to get worse since then.
