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Customer testimony underscores premium shock as Exchange braces for end of enhanced tax credits
Summary
At the Dec. 11 Washington Health Benefits Exchange board meeting, CEO Ingrid Ulrey and a customer described early open-enrollment signals amid likely expiration of enhanced premium tax credits: higher premiums, fewer new customers and elevated cancellations — with vulnerable households facing large out-of-pocket shocks.
A retired King County resident told the Washington Health Benefits Exchange board on Dec. 11 that federal changes this year have dramatically increased her health insurance costs and disrupted her retirement plans.
"For 2025, I was enrolled in a plan that I paid $870 a month for, and that included an ACA tax credit of $377," said Lisa Rivland, a customer who described shopping for 2026 coverage on Washington Health Plan Finder. After the federal tax credit was gone, Rivland said, the same plan would have cost her about $1,600 a month — and the plan she selected instead costs $1,353 a month. "So that's $480 more a month than what I was paying in 2025," she said.
Ingrid Ulrey, the Exchange CEO, told the board the agency has set its market assumptions for open…
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