Your health insurance bills are about to go up
www.nbcnews.com
The premium increases stem in part from rising healthcare costs, including higher prices for medical care and expensive prescription drugs.

Most Americans can expect to pay significantly more each month for health insurance next year, whether they get it through work, the Affordable Care Act or Medicare. In some cases, the premium increases may be the largest in decades and are driven by numerous economic pressures. But they won’t look the same for everyone. Some will pay more in the form of higher copays or deductibles.

“Healthcare costs are going up faster than they have in years, and open enrollment is when the healthcare affordability crisis is really going to hit home for people,” said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy at KFF, a nonpartisan research group. “That’s true for whatever kind of insurance you have.”

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  • Prox
    70·
    2 months ago

    Employers expect the cost of providing health benefits to each worker to rise 8.2%, on average, in 2027 — the largest increase since 2003[…]

    Health insurance in the US is completely fucking broken and the current system is clearly beyond repair. People HAVE to have it, so the providers can keep charging whatever they want, outpacing inflation and fast outpacing wages, while they simultaneously enjoy record profits. We’ve gotta get with (checks notes) EVERY other first-world nation and move to a universal/single-payer system.

    But that would also mean that 0.000002% of the population who “don’t deserve” care might get it, so of course the county will keep cutting off its nose to spite its face.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞English
          6·
          2 months ago

          They deserve to live long lives… in a concrete box with a shitty bed, steel commode, and access to standard prison food. With no commissary.

        • StupidBrotherInLaw
          2·
          2 months ago

          It pains me to say it, but even them. Even more than rotting in prison, what I’d like is for them to receive the psychiatric care they needed decades ago, and for them to truly understand the horror of what they’ve done. Otherwise, they’ll go to their graves feeling justified.