Fig. 1
From: Three years in – changing plan features in the U.S. health insurance marketplace
Geographic Variation in the Cost of Staying in a Silver Plan: 2014–2015. Areas with diagonal lines, labeled “No Data,” represent states that did not participate in federally-facilitated exchanges (i.e. have state marketplaces). The cost of staying was calculated as the difference between: the change between the monthly after-subsidy premium of the 2014 silver plan and the linked 2015 plan, and the change between the 2014 plan and the lowest-cost silver plan in 2015. Black represents counties where the 2014 lowest-cost silver plan was discontinued in 2015. Computed costs of staying apply to a 60-year-old