Workers with employer-sponsored family coverage are paying an average of $7,471 toward premiums this year, up $621 from 2025, according to KFF.

Paying for a typical hospital stay now requires 435 hours of work time, which is a 13.3% increase from the previous analysis.

The high cost of new drugs at launch, often at prices exceeding $200,000 annually, is a major driver of increased overall health care spending.

Voters have more confidence in Democrats than Republicans to address both the cost of health care and the cost of living, according to a KFF tracking poll.

The task force is designed to coordinate federal efforts to improve research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of women's health conditions.

AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim and PhRMA want to defend the rebate plans that the Health Resources and Services Administration approved for their drugs.

By a margin of nearly 2-to-1, U.S. adults now say the federal government should be willing to spend more tax dollars to lower health care costs for Americans.

"We found that HDHP enrollment may have increased out-of-pocket spending but was not associated with reductions in the use of these anticancer agents over a one-year follow-up period," according to a new report in the American Journal of Managed Care.