Health insurance premiums set to soar
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House Republicans on Thursday said they are summoning top health insurance executives to testify later this month as part of a series of hearings about health care affordability. The move from
Gov. Maura Healey said that the state is spending an additional $250 million to limit health insurance premium increases.
Affordable Care Act subsidies that helped middle-income families afford health insurance during the pandemic expired at the end of 2025, leaving some in Bexar County with looming premium increases of more than 300%.
With Connect for Health Colorado’s Jan. 15 deadline for Feb. 1 individual market health insurance looming and massive sticker shock settling in as 2026 premiums have skyrocketed, Eagle health insurance broker Bethe Wright says
The higher costs are pushing up annual health insurance spending by hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars.