{"id":161778,"date":"2026-04-22T11:51:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161778"},"modified":"2026-04-22T11:51:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:51:44","slug":"more-than-half-a-million-georgians-drop-aca-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161778","title":{"rendered":"More Than Half a Million Georgians Drop ACA Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage amid stiff premium price hikes for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans, according to data obtained by The Current GA and Georgia Recorder.<\/p>\n<p>The 37% enrollment drop \u2014 from 1.5 million Georgians in January 2025 to 950,000 as of April 17, 2026 \u2014 dwarfs any previous decline in the state since the launch of so-called Obamacare health insurance plans in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Rising prices for health insurance policies bought on Georgia&#8217;s health care marketplace occurred after the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump decided against extending COVID-era &#8220;enhanced&#8221; health insurance subsidies, which sunset Dec. 31, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what we&#8217;re going to do, honestly,&#8221; said Monty Veazey, president of the Georgia Alliance of Community Hospitals, when informed of the data. &#8220;It&#8217;s a larger number than I anticipated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpb.org\/news\/2026\/04\/21\/georgias-aca-enrollment-plunges-raising-concerns-for-rural-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia Public Broadcasting<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half a million Georgians have dropped health insurance coverage amid stiff premium price hikes for federally subsidized Affordable Care Act plans, according to data obtained by The Current GA and Georgia Recorder. The 37% enrollment drop \u2014 from 1.5 million Georgians in January 2025 to 950,000 as of April 17, 2026 \u2014 dwarfs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161783,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161778\/revisions\/161783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}