The Kaiser Family Foundation today published its updated state-by-state estimate of "Percent of Potential Marketplace Population Who Have Selected a Marketplace Plan." Kaiser's Larry Levitt tweeted thusly about Florida, the state with the highest marketplace enrollment:
Potentially subsidy-eligible: 1,556,000 (Kaiser, Sept. 30, 2015)
Enrolled with premium subsidy for 2016*: 1,585,965 (HHS final enrollment report, 2016)
Percent of potentially subsidy-eligible pop: 102%
Yup -- more Floridians are enrolled with subsidies, or were as of the end of open enrollment on Feb. 1, than Kaiser estimated to be eligible for subsidies last fall. That's amusing. Let's keep in mind:
Two thirds is very high indeed, since Kaiser's "potential population" includes those who earn too much to qualify for subsidies, and most of them buy their coverage off-exchange. So I went back to Kaiser's last estimate of each state's potential subsidy-eligible marketplace population and compared the estimate for Florida to the number of 2016 Florida enrollees (as of the end of open enrollment) who obtained premium subsidies. Lo, the results:Two-thirds of potential ACA enrollees in Florida have now signed up for health insurance. Top state in the country.https://t.co/bsKI2e1jdl— Larry Levitt (@larry_levitt) March 15, 2016
Potentially subsidy-eligible: 1,556,000 (Kaiser, Sept. 30, 2015)
Enrolled with premium subsidy for 2016*: 1,585,965 (HHS final enrollment report, 2016)
Percent of potentially subsidy-eligible pop: 102%
Yup -- more Floridians are enrolled with subsidies, or were as of the end of open enrollment on Feb. 1, than Kaiser estimated to be eligible for subsidies last fall. That's amusing. Let's keep in mind:
