Volume 407, Issue 10528
7 February 2026
WORLD REPORT With the spike in Affordable Care Act health insurance costs, around 4·8 million people could lose coverage. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
The failure of Congress to continue premium subsidies is expected to make health insurance unaffordable for millions of Americans who do not qualify for other government insurance programs. As hospitals experience an increase in uncompensated care, the financial strain could force them to make difficult decisions to reduce services. [Continued here.]
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much of the costs different plans will cover for three medical conditions: maternity care, treatment for diabetes and breast cancer. And because buying insurance is more complicated than buying a can of soup, the proposed insurance labels are two pages long. ….The new “coverage facts labels” are required under the health overhaul law, which directed the National Assn. of Insurance Commissioners to draft them. [