Pennsylvania's health care marketplace released data on average insurance cost increases in 2026 as media reports that Senate negotiations to restore the subsidies are "effectively over."
In Pennsylvania, according Pennie, premiums jumped on average 102 percent. The average premium increase in York County, according to Pennie, was 169 percent. The highest average was recorded in Juniata County, at 485 percent. The lowest, Sullivan County, with a population of fewer than 6,000 in the northeast corner of the state was 29 percent.
About 85,000 Pennsylvanians have dropped their Affordable Care Act coverage for 2026 in the face of soaring premium costs from the expiration of federal subsidies.
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Overpowering Speaker Mike Johnson, a bipartisan coalition in the House voted Wednesday to push forward a measure that would revive an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowered health insurance costs for roughly 22 million people, but that had expired last month.
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The stunning move came the same day that House Republican leaders pushed to passage a health care bill that does not address the soaring monthly premiums that millions of people will soon endure. Those premium hikes will occur because the tax credits for those who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year’s end.
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