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Silver plans in Buena Vista County

9 Silver plans sold in Buena Vista County, Iowa, from 3 insurers, priced at age 21.

What people in Buena Vista County actually paid

The prices below are the sticker price. Most people do not pay it. In 2026, the average plan in Buena Vista County listed at $636 a month and the average person paid $242 after the advance premium tax credit.

Across the 99 Iowa counties CMS published, the averages are $658 and $235; across the country, $829 and $183. Those are our averages of the county figures; every other number here is CMS’s own.

135 of the 664 people who enrolled here — 20.3% — paid $10 a month or less.

What you pay depends on your income and your household, and only HealthCare.gov can work it out for you. These are the county's published averages, not a quote.

Premiums at age 21: 212730405060

PlanMetalType Premium at 21DeductibleMax out of pocket
Silver Simple PCP Saver
Oscar Insurance Company
SilverEPO $428.74 $5,000 $8,500
Silver Classic Standard
Oscar Insurance Company
SilverEPO $429.21 $6,000 $8,900
Silver Classic
Oscar Insurance Company
SilverEPO $434.82 $5,000 $8,000
Silver Simple Diabetes
Oscar Insurance Company
SilverEPO $437.96 $6,500 $10,000
Wellmark Silver Traditional HMO
Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc.
SilverHMO $478.83 $5,000 $7,500
Wellmark Standard Silver HMO
Wellmark Health Plan of Iowa, Inc.
SilverHMO $485.84 $6,000 $8,900
Medica Insure Silver $0 Copay PCP Visits
Medica
SilverEPO $693.02 $3,500 $10,450
Medica Insure Silver Share
Medica
SilverEPO $713.83 $3,525 $8,850
Medica Insure Silver Standard
Medica
SilverEPO $725 $6,000 $8,900

Silver is the only level that carries cost-sharing reductions. If your income is under 250% of the federal poverty level, a Silver plan’s deductible and copays drop automatically — often far below what Gold offers for more money. Each plan’s page shows exactly what it becomes.

Counties next to this one

Buena Vista County is in Rating Area 3 of Iowa. A rating area is the group of counties an insurer must price together, so a plan sold in two of them carries the same price in each. 12 other counties share it and are listed first; the rest are the largest in Iowa.

CountyPlansInsurersCheapest at 40Average paid after credit
Woodbury County same rating area 584 $300.41$239
Sioux County same rating area 545 $353.58$265
Cherokee County same rating area 424 $359.36$284
Ida County same rating area 424 $359.36$295
Monona County same rating area 424 $359.36$285
Palo Alto County same rating area 424 $359.36$284
Plymouth County same rating area 363 $300.41$318
Crawford County same rating area 323 $392.39$264
Clay County same rating area 283 $353.58$251
Dickinson County same rating area 283 $353.58$276
Lyon County same rating area 283 $353.58$241
O'Brien County same rating area 283 $353.58$228

Open enrollment for 2026 coverage runs 1 November 2025 to 15 January 2026 in most states. Outside that window you need a qualifying life event — losing other coverage, moving, marrying, having a child — to enrol.

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Premiums, deductibles, out-of-pocket maximums and cost sharing are reproduced from the HealthCare.gov Qualified Health Plan landscape file published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for plan year 2026. What people actually paid comes from the CMS open-enrollment county public use file for 2026. CMS landscape file as loaded 17 September 2026. The state and national averages are our arithmetic over CMS’s county figures; nothing else on this page is calculated by us. This is not a complete list of your options and it is not advice: to see every plan and to enrol, use HealthCare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596.