Health insurance premiums jump 9%, and more Americans don’t have access to coverage

Average U.S. employer-sponsored family health insurance premiums will rise 9% to $7,471 in 2026, and the uninsured rate among working-age adults climbed from 8.9% in 2024 to 11.2%. CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz called New York's Social Adult Day Care program "a plague to the state," and a federal enforcement action led to the arrest of two providers for allegedly defrauding $500,000. Northwestern Medicine research shows personalized preoperative rehabilitation cut mortality risk by about 50% among adherent patients out of 355 liver transplant candidates.