Goes to show that having a creation date placed somewhere near the top of an article or blog post is a good idea.
replyThe post is from February 2020.
replyI can't see a date on the post (on mobile) but the archives link has month and year.
Well then, I take it all back.
replyThis might vary state-by-state, CA MediCal for instance did limit the subsidies based on income last year. I don't think it was an all-or-nothing cutoff, but I do think there were points around the 50k mark where the delta between your subsidy and the one for the lower bracket was higher than the loss you'd take by a few thousand dollars.
replyThe subsidies were from the federal government, managed as part of your federal income tax return. They had nothing to do with additional state subsidies.
replyThe basic story was that until the end of 2025, nobody in the USA had any reason to pay more than (roughly) 8.3% of their AGI for health insurance.