{"id":25304,"date":"2025-12-18T07:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25304"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:48:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:48:50","slug":"worried-about-health-insurance-costs-there-may-be-cheaper-options-but-with-trade-offs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25304","title":{"rendered":"Worried About Health Insurance Costs? There May Be Cheaper Options \u2014 But With Trade-Offs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the millions of Americans who buy Affordable Care Act insurance, there\u2019s still time left to enroll for 2026. But premium increases and the expiration of enhanced tax subsidies have led to larger-than-expected costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concerned shoppers, wondering if there\u2019s anything they can do, are consulting insurance brokers or talking to representatives at ACA marketplace call centers. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) For the millions of Americans who buy Affordable Care Act insurance, there\u2019s still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,21,200],"tags":[97,1986,120,166,385,238,1985,532],"class_list":["post-25304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","tag-aca","tag-catastrophic-plan","tag-employer-health-insurance","tag-health-insurance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-indemnity-plan","tag-short-term-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25305,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25304\/revisions\/25305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}