Private health insurance premiums will be going up in 2026 – in some cases, by a lot. Congressional Democrats and Republicans ...

Dividing Americans into multiple risk pools increases health care costs. And it limits the ability to debate an insurance system almost nobody understands.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently released its annual ranking of private health insurance plans. NCQA studied nearly 1,400 private, Medicaid and Medicare health plans and ranked ...

Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans' members, a new federal watchdog report says.

According to KFF, employers typically pay between 75% and 85% of the plan’s expenses and pass the rest onto workers. The remainder is usually deducted from their paychecks in the form of premiums. For ...

The November 2025 issue of Health Affairs features articles on a variety of topics, including different aspects of Medicaid enrollment in the wake of the unwinding of COVID-19-era protections, ...

Medicare-Medicaid dual enrollees accounted for roughly a third of those programs’ spending but less than 20 percent of enrollment in 2021. Policy makers have responded to dual enrollees’ high levels ...

A federal probe of Medicare and Medicaid plans run by private insurance companies found that the plan operators often overstated how many mental health providers were available in their networks. KFF ...