Hey, Jeb! Who's getting those "huge new subsidies" under the ACA?

Touting his new ACA replacement plan, which would wipe out ACA coverage rules for insurers and replace means-tested ACA private plan subsidies with tax credits for catastrophic coverage available at any income level, Bush asserted:

Obamacare created huge new subsidies for low-income Americans, but it left middle-income Americans facing higher premiums and higher out-of-pocket costs.

There are some grains of truth to that.  People who 1) get their insurance in the individual market,  2) earn too much to qualify for subsidies (that is, over 300-400% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL)), and 3) don't have pre-existing conditions pay more  than they would have pre-ACA.* You could argue, too, that the ACA has driven up out-of-pocket medical costs, if not premiums, for people with employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) -- or at least that it will do so once the Cadillac Tax kicks in, if it ever does. The claim is highly contestable, though, as neither premiums nor out-of-pocket costs have risen faster in ESI than in pre-ACA years and myriad factors are at work. Really, it's simply too early to tell.

But Bush's statement, like most Republican claims to speak in defense of "the middle class," reveals a top-heavy view of what "middle class" means. His sneer at "huge subsidies" is also a sneer at huge swaths of the U.S. population -- where the uninsured are concentrated.

A recent Census report** indicates that in 2014 the ACA caused large drops in the uninsured rate among Americans with incomes under 100% FPL ( a 4.2 point drop, from 23.5% to 19.3%), 100-199% FPL (a 5.3 point drop) and 200-299% FPL (4.2 points.).