07/18/2025

ACA Health Insurance Faces Big Premium Hikes

The average consumer could pay 75 percent more for a marketplace plan

Health insurers are proposing double-digit price hikes for plans sold through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, as extra federal subsidies for premiums expire at the end of the year and President Donald Trump's tariffs threaten higher pharmaceutical prices.

The median monthly premium increase would be 15 percent, according to a new analysis of insurer filings conducted by the nonpartisan health policy organization KFF.

The jump in costs would mark the largest premium hike in seven years, according to KFF's analysis of preliminary filings by 105 insurers in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Washington Post.