Where Obamacare enrollment is plummeting

According to Axios, Obamacare enrollment is falling sharply now that the enhanced federal subsidies passed in twenty twenty-one have expired — and the losses are landing on red states as much as blue ones. Ohio and Oklahoma each shed nearly a third of their marketplace enrollment over the past year, while Arizona, South Carolina, Minnesota and several others dropped more than a quarter. Nationally, enrollment is down about three million people, or roughly thirteen percent. A federal report from Health and Human Services blamed the decline on improper or fraudulent sign-ups it called phantom enrollees, but Axios notes that health policy experts point instead to large numbers of people simply not paying their first premium once the subsidies lapsed. What Axios says it's watching next: whether Republican candidates address the coverage losses heading into the midterms at all.

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