As I've noted before: While I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which isn't until New Year's Eve in California).
More important for the moment is the total number of active enrollments, which includes both new enrollees as well as current enrollees who log into their account and actively select a plan for 2026.
In California, those come to 617,316 combined.
As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 12/28), Covered CA was reporting:
As I've noted before: While I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which was December 15th in most states, but not until 12/31 in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI & VA).
More important for the moment is the total number of active enrollments, which includes both new enrollees as well as current enrollees who log into their account and actively select a plan for 2026.
In California, those come to 584,131 combined. This also means that only 25% of current enrollees had actively re-enrolled as of 12/20.
As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 12/21), Covered CA was reporting:
Covered California is encouraging all uninsured Californians to sign up for health insurance by Dec. 31.
The open-enrollment period for 2026 ends on Jan. 31, but to have insurance in place for January, consumers need to enroll by the end of the year. Covered California’s over 1.9 million enrollees also have until Dec. 31 to make any changes to their coverage for next year.
It has been a unique open enrollment with the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits set to expire heading into 2026. Since their introduction in 2021, the enhanced assistance has helped double enrollment nationally under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and by over 23 percent in California.
So far this open enrollment, 123,461 Californians have signed up for 2026 coverage as of Dec. 20, marking a 30 percent decrease over the same period last year.
As I've noted before: While I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which was December 15th in most states, but not until 12/23 in MA & 12/31 in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI & VA).
More important for the moment is the total number of active enrollments, which includes both new enrollees as well as current enrollees who log into their account and actively select a plan for 2026.
In California, those come to 535,349 combined. This also means that only 23% of current enrollees had actively re-enrolled as of 12/13.
As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 12/14), Covered CA was reporting:
As I've noted before: While I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which is December 15th in most states, although not until 12/23 in MA & 12/31 in MD, NV, NJ, NM & RI).
More important for the moment is the total number of active enrollments, which includes both new enrollees as well as current enrollees who log into their account and actively select a plan for 2026.
In California, those come to 451,576 combined. This also means that only 22% of current enrollees had actively re-enrolled as of 12/06.
As of the same point last year (actually 1 day more; the data from last year is as of 12/07), Covered CA was reporting:
I don't know if this is new or not, but it turns out that Covered California--the largest state-based ACA exchange in the country--has an Open Enrollment Dashboard after all!
This means that in addition to two small states regularly reporting Open Enrollment data (Maine and New Mexico), the largest one is as well!
Here's what Covered CA is reporting as of November 29th:
New enrollments: 45,023
Active renewals: 365,879
Passive/Autorenewals: 1,412,526
Total: 1,823,428
As I've noted in both my Maine and New Mexico updates, while I include the passive/auto-renewal number for completeness sake, that number won't really be relevant until after the deadline for January 1st coverage passes (which is December 15th in most states, although not until 12/23 in MA & 12/31 in MD, NV, NJ, NM & RI).4,
