Higher Premiums, Medicare Updates: Health Care Changes To Expect in 2026

Higher costs and major shifts in ACA coverage and Medicare will affect healthcare and health insurance affordability.

Smaller raise? Higher health insurance costs may be to blame

Many employers responded to rising health insurance costs by scaling back pay increases, the New York Fed found.
News Tribune

Why Your Health Insurance Costs Will Soar in 2026

There are a few (small) steps you can take to control your health care costs. The key? Acting now, not later. Money; Getty Images While health insurance premiums — that is, the amount that you pay ...

As Health Insurance Costs Soar CFOs Seek Ways to Dull the Pain

Companies face a roughly 9.5% surge in costs this year, the biggest rise in at least 15 years.
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Worried about health insurance costs? There may be cheaper options — but with trade-offs

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Iowans voice concerns that HMO tax bill could raise health insurance costs

Lawmakers heard concerns Wednesday that health care costs would grow for Iowans under a proposed retroactive, one-time tax ...

Forget tariffs: Research finds soaring health insurance and utility costs hitting employers hardest

Survey data shows import tariffs were a factor in 2025 business costs, but the New York Fed said other, less splashy price ...
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When health insurance costs more than the mortgage

When Noah Hulsman, who owns a skate shop in Louisville, Kentucky, learned he no longer qualified for federal subsidies to help him pay for his “gold” Affordable Care Act health plan, the 37-year-old ...