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Colorado residents fill out cards and share their stories for content to send to congressional representatives regarding health-care cuts on Nov. 1, 2025, the first day of ACA open enrollment, in Northglenn, Colorado.<\/p>\n

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Some states are stepping in to blunt the financial fallout of lapsed federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health insurance premiums. <\/p>\n

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Mexico have all started offering additional state-funded premium subsidies in 2026 in order to help keep insurance premiums from becoming unaffordable for many residents after enhanced federal subsidies expired at the end of 2025, experts said. <\/p>\n

In most cases, the state assistance is less generous than the lapsed federal aid, they said.<\/p>\n

But state subsidies will help many consumers \u2014 especially those with lower incomes \u2014 and reduce the number of households that drop their insurance coverage, experts said.<\/p>\n

“They soften the blow,” Louise Norris, a health policy analyst for healthinsurance.org, an insurance referral site, said of the state-level premium subsidies.<\/p>\n

Roughly 2.6 million people in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts and New Mexico received enhanced federal premium subsidies in 2025 \u2014 about 12% of all consumers getting them nationwide, according to federal data tracked by KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

<\/a>Blue states offer ACA subsidies<\/h2>\n
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A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Diego, California, Oct. 26, 2017.<\/p>\n

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The maneuvers may deepen the political divide on the issue of health insurance subsidies, experts said.<\/p>\n

Democrats on Capitol Hill have pushed to extend the expired federal subsidies, even centering the record-long government shutdown around the issue. The Republican majority has thus far stymied their efforts.<\/p>\n

Blue states are the ones that have chosen to offer extra premium assistance to residents, said Matt McGough, an Affordable Care Act policy analyst at KFF. <\/p>\n

Even then, it’s only a “very small handful” that have done so, he said. <\/p>\n

Red states like Texas and Florida saw by far the largest growth in ACA enrollment after enhanced federal subsidies took effect in 2021 \u2014 and stand to see many of those consumers drop their insurance coverage now that the federal subsidies have ended, McGough said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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