(with apologies to “Weird Al” Yankovic) Back in July, I warned that my original projections from earlier in the year of how much net ACA enrollee premiums will increase starting in January 2026 in all 50 states +DC if the enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire would have to be revised & updated due to two major changes which had taken place since then: First, my original analysis assumed a 4.3% average full-price premium increase in every state. At the time none of the carriers had published even preliminary filings for 2026, so all I had to go with was the Congressional Budget Office's projection that the subsidies expiring would bump up avg. gross premiums by 4.3% by itself. That 4.3% didn't include any other "normal" factors such as general inflation, increased utilization of medical services, the added cost of covering new prescription medications like GLP-1 drugs (WeGovy, Ozempic, etc) and so on. It also couldn't account for the impact of the Trump Regime's tariffs on foreign-produced medical equipment and prescription drugs, which hadn't been imposed yet.