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What are the deadlines for the ACA’s open enrollment period?
A list of the open enrollment deadlines for enrollment in 2025 ACA-compliant health insurance in every state. Open enrollment runs from November 1 to January 15 in most states, but some state-run exchanges have different schedules.

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Will you receive an ACA premium subsidy?
See if you're eligible for the Affordable Care Act's premium tax credits (premium subsidies), how subsidies are calculated, and why they are more robust than they used to be.

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Affordable Care Act

Who needs the ACA marketplace? About 45 million Americans since its 2014 launch. photo

Who needs the ACA marketplace? About 45 million Americans since its 2014 launch.

October 7, 2020 – As many as 50 million Americans have enrolled in ACA plans since 2014. The debate about protections for those with pre-existing conditions…

The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill: a cheat sheet photo

The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill: a cheat sheet

May 26, 2017 – The Senate is working on its own version of repeal-and-replace legislation. Here's what happens next ... and how you can…

Affordable Care Act supporters gird for battle photo

Affordable Care Act supporters gird for battle

February 20, 2017 – We're at one of those moments right now for millions of American families. It's a moment to tell the truth to the American public. Get past…

Obamacare: A Stepping Stone? photo

Obamacare: A Stepping Stone?

November 9, 2015 – The following guest post is from Simon F. Haeder, the winner of healthinsurance.org's 2014 Health Wonk Scholarship. Haeder is a Ph.D.…

Justices Kennedy, Roberts are ‘votes in play’ photo

Justices Kennedy, Roberts are ‘votes in play’

March 4, 2015 – This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the lawsuit that claims that the Affordable Care Act only allows…

Anatomy of a true health insurance death spiral photo

Anatomy of a true health insurance death spiral

March 4, 2015 – AHIP warned that eliminating the subsidies ... would quickly lead to the collapse of the individual health insurance market in those states…

Removing the heart of Obamacare

November 14, 2014 – Larry Levitt and Harold Pollack speculate about 'surgeries' the ACA might face as Republicans scheme to remove Obamacare's vital…

Figuring out how to put ‘skin in the game’ photo

Figuring out how to put ‘skin in the game’

June 4, 2014 – The studies indicate that people are very responsive to healthcare prices when they see them. If you raise people's price for meds, they…

Can we ‘do the right thing’ profitably? photo

Can we ‘do the right thing’ profitably?

June 3, 2014 – David Cutler was the author of a prescient and scathing 2010 analysis warning of the need for stronger management of information technology…

Obamacare: Just what the doctor ordered? photo

Obamacare: Just what the doctor ordered?

May 13, 2014 – In Part 2 of my conversation with Sabrina Corlette, we talk about whether the Affordable Care Act is improving the health care system. Will…

‘Bros’ on board – and other promising signs photo

‘Bros’ on board – and other promising signs

May 11, 2014 – With 8 million Americans enrolled in Obamacare's exchanges – 28 percent of them young adults – the collapse of the Affordable Care Act…

Could Obamacare save 24,000 lives a year? photo

Could Obamacare save 24,000 lives a year?

May 5, 2014 – This back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that ACA will prevent something like 24,000 deaths every year. That’s almost the number of…