This file contains supplemental estimates for: Loss of Enhanced Subsidies and OBBBA Could Cut Young Adults' Subsidized Marketplace Coverage by More than Half. It displays state-level and aggregate results from the Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) for adults aged 19 to 34. Among this population, we compare the following scenarios: (1) Enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) had not terminated in 2026, and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has not been implemented; (2) enhanced PTCs are not available, and OBBBA has not been implemented; and (3) enhanced PTCs are not available, and OBBBA Marketplace provisions have been implemented.
Dataset Info
- Modified 2026-09-14
- Release Date 2026-09-08
- Temporal Coverage
- License odc-by
- Granularity State, Nationwide
- Contact Name Urban Institute
- Contact Email [email protected]
- Public Access Level public
Urban Extended Info
- Modified 2026-09-14
- Release Date 2026-09-08
- Geographic Level
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Data Value
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Data Quality
We use the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model to simulate health coverage under several policy scenarios in 2028. The model is calibrated based on state-specific Medicaid and Marketplace enrollment and costs for early 2026. There is uncertainty in our estimates of the impacts of OBBBA’s Marketplace provisions on enrollment. This is particularly true for changes in PTC eligibility by immigration status, where no public data on the detailed immigration status of Marketplace enrollees with PTCs is available. Coverage losses among lawfully present immigrants may be higher than we simulate. There is also uncertainty in how many people would re-enroll in the absence of automatic enrollment; in the share of people who, when faced with a data match issue (DMI), would pay the full premium until the DMI is resolved; and the extent to which DMIs will be triggered as they are now rather than as proposed by the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In each case, we use the best available evidence to predict behavior. However, our estimates could understate coverage losses depending on how policy changes are implemented, particularly in the first year in which automatic enrollment with advance PTCs is prohibited.
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Urban Publications
- Citation Requirements Urban Institute. 2026. Changes in Subsidized Marketplace Coverage for Young Adults Ages 19 to 34 Under Expiration of Enhanced PTCs and OBBBA. Accessible from https://datacatalog.urban.org/dataset/changes-subsidized-marketplace-coverage-young-adults-ages-19-34-under-expiration-enhanced. Data originally sourced from HIPSM, developed at the Urban Institute, and made available under the ODC-BY 1.0 Attribution License.