Colorado insurance companies filed for a weighted average 13.4 percent premium increase on individual health plans for 2027, with one carrier asking for as much as 23.9 percent. None of those numbers are prices yet. As of today, the Colorado Division of Insurance has not approved a single one of next year’s requested individual-market rate…

Colorado’s insurance regulator released preliminary 2027 premium filings from health insurers in late July, and buried in that filing data is a bigger number than the one the state highlighted in its own headline. Insurers filed for a weighted average request of 13.4 percent more across Colorado’s individual market for next year, with one carrier’s…

New York’s insurance regulator just did something most states haven’t: it finished the job. On September 4, 2026, the state Department of Financial Services approved final 2027 health insurance premiums for the individual and small-group markets, and the number that survived is a fraction of what insurers originally asked for. If you’ve seen headlines this…

In 2025, a 40-year-old earning $65,000 a year in Indianapolis paid $316 a month for an Anthem silver plan after a federal tax credit brought the price down. This year, with that credit gone, the same plan costs $477 a month. Insurers have now filed rates for 2027 that would push it to $546 —…

Insurance companies do not usually explain their price increases in public. This year they have, in writing, to state regulators — and in filing after filing for 2027, they point at the same cause for roughly four percentage points of the increase: the enhanced premium tax credits that expired at the end of 2025. That…

Oregon’s insurance regulator locked in a 21.6 percent average rate increase for its individual health insurance market on August 18. Delaware’s regulator followed on September 4, approving a 17.2 percent increase for its largest marketplace insurer. Both numbers are final decisions, not the opening asks insurance companies filed months ago. If you buy your own…

Marcus Webb’s insurance broker in Toledo has fielded the same panicked phone call four times this week: a client who saw a headline saying the government shrank Open Enrollment down to December 15 this year, and wanted to lock in a plan before it was “too late.” It isn’t too late. HealthCare.gov’s own site, checked…

If you buy your own health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, the letter that lands in your mailbox this fall is likely to carry a bigger number than last year’s. Insurers covering every state and Washington, D.C. have filed paperwork asking regulators to approve a median premium increase of 15 percent for 2027.…

Cigna sold you an individual health plan this year in one of 11 states. Come January 1, 2027, that plan won’t exist. Roughly 369,000 people are in this position right now, and most of them don’t know it yet, because the decision was made back in April during a routine earnings call, not a headline…

Virginia’s largest hospital system says the state’s biggest health insurer has stopped paying its bills on time. Sentara Health told Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Virginia this summer that the insurer owes more than $105 million in claims already 90 days past due, on top of two smaller billing disputes. The fight over that…