A SCOTUS Ruling Against Federally Run Exchanges Would Hurt Some States More Than Others

The geographic distribution of which counties would be impacted the most by a ruling that citizens in states not running their own exchanges cannot receive subsidies. The gray states will not be impacted by such a ruling but those on the tan spectrum would be. Darker states have the more people in the eligibility range of the ACA’s subsidies.

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Source: Author’s calculations using data from the Internal Revenue Service’s Statistics of Income and information from the Kaiser Family Foundation State Health Facts