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KFF Health News
Dec. 16, 2025
"California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in a bid to rein in the intense financial pressure felt by many families, individuals, and employers who every year face increases in premiums, deductibles, and other health-related expenses. Hospitals and other health care providers are citing Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act ... as one more reason to challenge those limits."
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KFF Health News
Dec. 5, 2025
"[Some] are pitching the accounts as an alternative to expiring enhanced federal subsidies that have lowered insurance premium payments for most Americans with [ACA] coverage. But legal limits on how HSAs can and can't be used are prompting doubts that expanding their use would benefit the predominantly low-income people who rely on ACA plans.... One group that would almost certainly benefit: a slew of companies selling expensive wellness items that can be purchased with tax-free dollars from the accounts."
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KFF Health News
Nov. 26, 2025
"As the nation's largest employer-sponsored health insurance program, the FEHB Program covers more than 8.2 million federal government employees and retirees, and it was once celebrated as a national model for controlling costs while giving enrollees many health plan options. But next year, average enrollee premium payments in the system are set to jump more than 12%, on top of a 13.5% hike in 2025. The two-year increase is higher than what many private employers and their workers are experiencing."
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KFF Health News
Nov. 10, 2025
"Health systems, doctor groups, and insurers are merging and coalescing into ever-bigger giants. While these mergers are good for business, studies show the escalating consolidation in health care is driving up prices, harming patient outcomes, and decreasing choice for people who need care. A recent study found that six years after hospitals acquired other hospitals, they had raised prices by 12.9%, with hospitals that engaged in multiple acquisitions raising their prices by 16.3%."
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KFF Health News
Oct. 22, 2025
"Premiums for job-based health insurance rose 6% in 2025 to an average of $26,993 a year for family coverage ... It's the first time in two decades that the cost of covering a family of four has risen by 6% or more for three consecutive years[.]"
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KFF Health News
Aug. 11, 2025
"When the ACA was voted into law in 2010, ... its dependent coverage expansion was immediately effective, guaranteeing health insurance to millions of young Americans up to age 26 who would otherwise not have had coverage.... The erosion of the law has now created an 'insurance cliff' for Americans who are turning 26 and don't have a job that provides medical coverage."
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KFF Health News
Mar. 11, 2025
"Average monthly premiums for families with employer-provided health coverage in California's private sector nearly doubled over the last 15 years, from just over $1,000 in 2008 to almost $2,000 in 2023 ... Average premiums for families with employer-provided health coverage grew as fast nationwide as they did in California from 2008 through 2023... Premiums at CalPERS, which provides insurance to more than 1.5 million of California's active and retired public employees and family members, have risen about 31% since 2022."
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KFF Health News
June 24, 2025
"Dozens of insurance companies ... agreed to several measures ... [M]any people may not notice a difference, even if insurers follow through on their new commitments.... Prior authorization isn't going anywhere.... Reform efforts aren't new.... Insurance companies are already supposed to be doing some of these things.... Health insurers will increasingly rely on artificial intelligence.... Key details remain up in the air."
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KFF Health News
Mar. 11, 2025
"Among other new requirements, consumers would have to provide more information proving their eligibility for special enrollment periods and for premium subsidies when they enroll. The regulation would also shorten the annual enrollment period by a month"
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KFF Health News
Jan. 23, 2025
"The directives ... provide a possible road map that health researchers say could increase the number of uninsured Americans and weaken safety net protections for low-income people.... The drug order Trump rescinded called on [CMS] to test ways to lower drug costs ... and having states try to get better prices by banding together to buy certain expensive cell and gene therapies. That might indicate Trump expects to do less on drug pricing this term or even roll back drug price negotiation in Medicare."
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