Premiums for Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans will increase 7% on average across 324 insurers next year. This increase is on par with premium increases for 2024, according to Peterson-KFF's Health System Tracker.
Proposed premium changes for 2025 range from a decrease of 14% to an increase of 51%, although most premium changes fall between 2% and 10% increases for 2025. Fifty of the 324 ACA insurers proposed decreasing premiums, while 85 insurers requested premium increases greater than 10%.
Insurers attributed the increased premiums to growth in health care prices, inflation and the increasing use of weight loss and other specialty drugs,
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