Amid health insurance unpredictability, off-exchange plans offer a secret path to stability

With upcoming changes due to the OBBBA, employers may find these plans to be financially beneficial and keep healthy employees from dropping coverage. Read More

Your health insurance costs are rising at the highest level since 2010. Here's why.

Working-age Americans who get health insurance through their job will see largest health insurance rate hikes since 2010. Read More

Health insurance in Pa. may see biggest hike in years

Tentative 2026 health insurance rates for individual plans show a 19% average increase and small business group plans show a 13% jump, according to Pennsylvania regulators. The proposed rate hikes ... Read More

Brace for impact: health insurance costs on the rocks

Aug. 13—As many as 9,000 individuals in Haywood County could see their health insurance costs raise dramatically or their health coverage just disappear next year. Some 5,500 Haywood County residents ... Read More

Health insurance costs to spike again in NY. What to expect in 2026

Health insurers in New York have requested an average rate hike of 13.5% for individuals in that Affordable Care Act, or ACA, marketplace and related programs in 2026. The proposed rate hike for small ... Read More

New Yorkers could see health insurance rise up to 13% next year. Why costs are rising

NY's Department of Financial Services approved the 2026 health insurance rate hikes, which are part of national trend driving health care costs up. Read More

Two Colorado insurers pull some plans from individual health care market

Tens of thousands of Coloradans will need to shop for new health coverage after two insurance companies told the state on Wednesday they're pulling plans from the individual market. About 96,000 ... Read More

How market forces and federal policy will shape 2026 health plan premiums

Public policy as well as market forces shape the individual and small-group health insurance marketplace and drive the cost of premiums. Cori Uccello, senior health fellow with the American Academy of ... Read More

How Health Insurance Monopolies Affect Your Care

MOBILE, ALA.—Not long ago, Dr. Richard Menger, a neurosurgeon, was ready to operate on a 16-year-old with complex scoliosis. A team of doctors had spent months preparing for the surgery, consulting ... Read More

Health Insurance Affordability: Balancing Premiums And Out-Of-Pocket Costs

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) led to dramatic declines in the share of Americans who lack health insurance coverage. According to the Census Bureau, the nonelderly uninsured rate fell from 16.7 ... Read More

Health insurance costs to spike again in NY. What to expect in 2026

Consumers who buy health insurance through the New York State-run Affordable Care Act marketplace could face double-digit percentage rate hikes next year. That's because health insurers in New York ... Read More

Brace for impact: health insurance costs on the rocks

Aug. 13—As many as 9,000 individuals in Haywood County could see their health insurance costs raise dramatically or their health coverage just disappear next year. KFF, a nonprofit health policy ... Read More