Covered California health insurance will cost more in 2026. Here's what's behind the double-digit increase

[Auggie]

1. A little over a 10% increase. So without subsidies ...

a couple in their mid 50s to early 60s (like we were a while back), who would have had to pay somewhere around $1950 a month for a Preferred Provider plan, will see premiums jump by $195.00 a month. WITH a yearly deductible of, what, $6000.00? The HMO option was about $1800 a month with a deductible of $9000.00.

(this is based on estimated premiums I remember before Mrs. Auggie and I went on Medicare.)

Way back when the ACA was being debated, many said (even the repukes who voted against it) that it was incentive "not to work" in order to qualify for subsidies. With reduced subsidies it sounds like incentive "not to want to live."

It's insane that it has come to this.