Health Insurance News Health Insurance Is Expensive, But Americans Intend To Keep Their Plans In 2023

A family health insurance plan now costs nearly $27,000. Why is insurance so expensive?

If it seems like your health insurance bill is rising faster than your paycheck, you're not mistaken. The average cost for a family health insurance plan offered through the workplace was $26,993 in ... Read More

Obamacare Is Expensive. But So Is All Health Insurance.

The main difference is that most Americans don’t confront the full cost of their coverage. By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz The authors have been covering the high cost of American health care ... Read More

Why your health insurance copays, deductibles and premiums will probably surge next year

Brace yourselves, workers. Your health insurance at the job could cost you a lot more in 2026. Although overall inflation is more muted than a few years ago, employers are preparing for the steepest ... Read More

How churn threatens Americans’ health

Emanuel is the vice provost for global initiatives and the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy university professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Graves is a professor of health policy at ... Read More

Health insurance subsidy standoff pits affordable care for millions against federal budget constraints

(THE CONVERSATION) As the federal government entered a shutdown on Oct. 1, 2025, competing narratives quickly emerged about the cause. Without new legislation, the subsidies revert to pre-2021 levels ... Read More

Health insurance is about to get a lot more expensive: What you can do

Republicans have shut down the federal government because they want to end Affordable Care Act tax credits, and if they get their way, some Virginia families enrolled in the Virginia Insurance ... Read More