About 200,000 Virginians will be eligible to tap into new state funding meant to offset costs for insurance through the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange, starting in November.
This means that participants could save about 70% on their monthly premium, after state lawmakers and Gov. Abigail Spanberger approved $150 million dollars for it in the state budget late last month.
The move comes after federal funding shifts triggered by Congress’ failure to renew expiring ACA subsidies. Thousands of Virginians have dropped their coverage so far this year as premiums have shot up.
Virginia’s Health Benefit Exchange estimates that about 100,000 Virginians have lost their health coverage this year as a result of higher premiums, according to a new press release.
Yesterday I noted that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a new database which updates the official effectuated ACA exchange enrollment data for all 50 states (+DC) through February 2026.
This means that I finally have comprehensive effectuated enrollment data for the first two months of the year for every state, as opposed to only having Open Enrollment Period (OEP) plan selections, which aren't the same thing.
While there are still four months of effectuated enrollment data missing, this still fills in a lot of the missing pieces of the year over year enrollment puzzle, since this new database also includes state-level effectuations from August - December 2025 as well (previously I only had the national total for those months).
But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.
For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions.
