| New data released this week reveals that nearly 70,000 New Jerseyans dropped their health insurance after Congressman Tom Kean Jr. failed to extend the ACA tax credits – a 14% dip from last year.
The report shows that families are also downgrading their plans and opting for worse coverage because they simply can’t afford the skyrocketing costs that Kean Jr. helped cause.
REMINDER: Kean Jr. cast a decisive vote for the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” which made historic cuts to health care and failed to extend the ACA tax credits – all while giving new tax breaks to billionaires. Thanks to Kean Jr. and House Republicans, families are being forced to cut back on basic needs like groceries to afford their health insurance.
DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“New Jerseyans know that Tom Kean Jr. owns this health care crisis and they will reject him for his cruel and extreme record in November.”
Read the coverage for yourself…
- New Jersey’s health insurance exchange is seeing a 14 percent dip in enrollment as customers ditch their health plans with rising premiums, the Sherrill administration announced on Tuesday.
- Enrollment in Get Covered New Jersey, the state’s health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act, is now at 440,362 as of April 15 — a 68,830 drop in enrollment since the end of the most recent open enrollment period.
- Enhanced federal subsidies for health plans on Affordable Care Act state exchanges expired at the end of 2025, since Congress declined to renew the Biden-era enhanced subsidies. The debate over whether to renew the health insurance tax credits led to the nation’s longest government shutdown, although Democrats were ultimately unsuccessful in efforts to renew the subsidies.
- Customers are also downgrading their plans. Marketplace plans are generally described as being in “metal levels” which corresponds to how generous the coverage is; the Department of Banking and Insurance said that enrollment in silver plans dropped while enrollment in bronze plans increased. (Eighty-three percent of insurance shoppers chose silver plans in 2024, although that is now 68 percent in 2026).
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