Charles Gaba ✡️
Since #GA01 Buddy Carter (R) may be the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, a reminder that even though GA hasn't expanded Medicaid under the #ACA, there's still 95,000 Georgians in his district & over 1.5 MILLION statewide facing SKYROCKETING #ACA premiums in January if the IRA subsidies aren't extended.

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Show threadCharles Gaba ✡️May 10, 2025
When I say "skyrocketing" I'm not exaggerating. These examples are for Atlanta specifically; they'd vary depending on which part of the state you're in, your household makeup & your annual income, but it's gonna be ugly for most enrollees regardless of any of that: acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
How much more will ~1.44 MILLION GEORGIA residents pay if the improved #ACA subsidies expire? (updated)

Originally posted 1/04/25 Georgia has around ~1.5 MILLION residents enrolled in ACA exchange plans, 93% of whom are currently subsidized. I estimate they also have another ~30,000 unsubsidized off-exchange enrollees. Combined, that's 1.54 million people, although assuming the national average 6.6% net enrollment attrition rate applies, current enrollment would be back down to more like 1.44 MILLION statewide. In early 2021, Congressional Democrats & President Biden passed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), which dramatically expanded & enhanced the original premium subsidy formula of the Affordable Care Act, finally bringing the financial aid sliding income scale up to the level it should have been in the first place over a decade earlier. They then extended the subsidy upgrade out by another 3 years via the Inflation Reduction Act. In addition to beefing up the subsidies along the entire 100 - 400% Federal Poverty Level (FPL) income scale, the upgrade eliminated the much-maligned "Subsidy Cliff" at 400% FPL, wherein a household earning even $1 more than that had all premium subsidies cut off immediately, requiring middle-class families to pay full price for individual market health insurance policies.

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