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THE ONE-WAY DOOR The subsidy cliff is back for 2027, and doing nothing renews you into it Insurers filed a median 15 percent increase. Seven are leaving. The cap on repaying excess credit is gone. |
November 1. The window opens that morning. The date that actually decides your January is December 15. |
Open enrollment for Marketplace coverage runs to January 15. Enroll after December 15 and the plan starts in February. |
Even those dates were in doubt. A rule would have closed the window on December 15, and a court vacated it in June. |
That ruling is under appeal. For now both dates stand. |
| 400% OF THE POVERTY LINE, WHERE THE CREDIT STOPS | → | For one person that line sits at $63,840. A dollar over it and the premium tax credit is zero, whatever the premium. |
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For a family of four the same line is $132,000. |
That cliff was flattened for four years. The enhanced credits expired on the last day of 2025, and Congress has not renewed them. |
The House passed a two-year extension in January. The Senate did not, and no floor action is scheduled. |
Prices moved with it. Insurers filed a median 15 percent increase for 2027, across 276 companies in every state. |
That is the second double-digit year running. The 2026 figure finished at a median of 20 percent. |
The spread is wide. Requests run from a 1 percent cut to a 54 percent rise. Under 7 percent in Vermont, Iowa and Utah. About 29 percent in Arizona. |
Then there is the quieter change. The cap on repaying excess credit is gone. |
Estimate your income low, take the credit all year, and the whole difference comes back at tax time. There is no ceiling on it now. |
The out-of-pocket maximum rises too, to $12,000 for one person and $24,000 for a family. |
Seven insurers are leaving the Marketplace for 2027. Their enrollees across 20 states will have to choose somebody else. |
Which is where auto-renewal stops being convenient. Renewal into a plan that no longer exists is not a plan. |
The default is the problem here. Coverage rolls over on its own, and the price rolls over with it. |
Nobody has to decide anything for that to happen. That is what makes it a door rather than a choice. |
Employer coverage is no refuge either. Benefit costs there are set to rise 8.2 percent next year, the fastest since 2003. |
Much of that lands on workers, as higher deductibles rather than a visibly higher premium. |
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Which is the pattern worth naming. Health costs now arrive as a deductible, a cliff or a repayment, rarely as a bill you were shown first. |
One honest limit. These are filed rates, not final ones, and the numbers can still move before November. |
And for anyone under the cliff, the credit rises with the benchmark and absorbs most of the increase. Above it, the whole rise is yours. |
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EVERY LEAD PASSES BEFORE IT RUNS The One-Way-Door Test |
01 | Can it be undone? A plan chosen in December holds for the year. Changing it afterwards needs a qualifying life event. | |
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02 | Who is already repositioning? The insurers. Seven of them are out of the Marketplace for 2027, across twenty states. | |
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03 | What does being late cost? A month of cover. Choose after December 15 and the policy starts in February, not January. | |
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THE MOVE · WHILE THERE IS STILL TIME Find the renewal notice your insurer sent and read two lines. Next year’s premium, and whether your plan still exists. Then check your income estimate against $63,840. These are filed rates, not final ones. Under the cliff, the credit absorbs most of the rise, so the headline number is not your number. |
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ALSO GOT LOOSE TODAY | Brent pushed back above $110 after a drone strike on Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah field. The State Department ordered non-emergency staff out of Saudi Arabia. | RESOURCES |
| France’s 10-year yield touched 5 percent for the first time since 2002. | WORLD |
| Tesla fell 3.8 percent in early trading after pulling back its spending plans. | MONEY |
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WHAT’S LEFT AT THE BOTTOM The window runs seventy-six days, and the first forty-five decide January. Nothing here needs a decision today. Only a date in the calendar. WE WATCH THE BOX. |
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