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Affordable Care Act Enrollment by Metal Percentage

By Dan Grunebaum Data Journalist

Dan Grunebaum Data Journalist

Dan Grunebaum is a data journalist and visualization developer for HealthCare.com. Dan has experience with surprise medical bills and seeks to bring clarity to the healthcare conversation.

Updated on September 9th, 2021

Reviewed by Charles Gaba

Charles Gaba

In 2013, when neither the government nor the mainstream media provided consistent, reliable reporting of enrollment data for the Affordable Care Act, Charles Gaba launched ACASignups.net as a hobby, using crowdsourcing to track enrollments in real time. He has since expanded his analysis to include the impact of the ACA’s Medicaid Expansion, SHOP exchanges, BHP provision, Silver Loading, off-exchange individual market enrollment, annual average premium rate changes and a wide range of healthcare policy/health insurance-related issues.

His work has been cited and used as a resource ever since by media outlets spanning the ideological spectrum including the Washington Post, Forbes, Bloomberg News, Vox.com, MSNBC, the New Republic, USA Today, the CATO Institute, National Review Online and The New York Times among others, as well as prominent medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet.

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Source: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Open Enrollment Period Public Use Files.

Silver plans accounted for the majority of ACA enrollment in 2020

As in all years since the 2013 launch of Healthcare.gov, the benchmark silver plans had the highest enrollment in 2021 among the three leading metal plans offered on Affordable Care Act marketplaces. In total, silver plans accounted for 6,560,684, or 56% of enrollees1. Bronze plans followed at 4,251,088 or 36% of enrollees, then gold plans at 990,819 or 8% of enrollees.

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  1. Unless otherwise noted, all data from 2020 Marketplace Open Enrollment Period Public Use Files. CMS, April 2, 2020.

About Dan Grunebaum

Dan Grunebaum is a data journalist and visualization developer for HealthCare.com. Dan has experience with surprise medical bills and seeks to bring clarity to the healthcare conversation.