New Kaiser interactive map shows ACA marketplace enrollment data by Congressional district

As the 115th U.S. Congress tackles the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, a new interactive map from the Kaiser Family Foundation provides estimates of the number of people in each Congressional district who enrolled in a 2016 ACA state marketplace health plan — and the political party of each district’s representative as of January.

The Kaiser analysis, called “Interactive Maps: Estimates of Enrollment in ACA Marketplaces and Medicaid Expansion,” finds 11.5 million ACA marketplace enrollees nationally as of March 31, 2016. Of those, 6.3 million live in districts with a Republican representative and 5.2 million live in districts represented by a Democrat.

Enrollment in private plans on New York’s ACA marketplace (the New York State of Health) in the four Congressional districts that encompass Central New York is as follows:

• 1st District (Watertown-Glens Falls): 14,400 enrolled

• 2nd District (Utica-Rome-Binghamton): 13,100 enrolled

• 3rd District (Ithaca-Elmira-Jamestown): 14,400 enrolled

• 4th District (Syracuse-Auburn): 13,500 enrolled

The four districts (shown in the adjacent image) are each represented by Republicans — Elise Stefanik, Claudia Tenney, Tom Reed, and John Katko, respectively.

The enrollment numbers in these four districts fall below the national median of 24,300 enrollees per Republican district and 23,600 enrollees in Democratic districts, according to Kaiser.

The 10 congressional districts with the highest number of marketplace health-plan enrollees are all in Florida — with each district exceeding 50,000 people enrolled.

The Kaiser Foundation analysis also includes maps charting by state the total number of people enrolled under the ACA Medicaid expansion in 2015, along with the political parties of the governors and U.S. senators. Among states that adopted the Medicaid expansion as of January 2017, 16 have Republican governors, 14 have Democratic governors, and one has an Independent governor. The maps are available at: http://kff.org/interactive/interactive-maps-estimates-of-enrollment-in-aca-marketplaces-and-medicaid-expansion/