{"id":25,"date":"2025-09-24T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2025-09-24T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T17:00:00","slug":"us-businesses-brace-for-over-9-health-insurance-premium-rise-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"US businesses brace for over 9% health insurance premium rise in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>U.S. businesses face the largest health insurance premium increase in over 15 years, with employer coverage costs rising about 9.5% in 2026. Family-plan premiums average $25,500, driven by higher healthcare prices, increased service use, chronic illnesses, and costly drugs like GLP-1s. Companies are redesigning plans or shifting costs to employees, while government exchange premiums may more than double, straining both employers and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcnc.com\/article\/news\/local\/connect-the-dots\/us-businesses-brace-health-insurance-premium-rise-2026\/275-170bad42-77a2-4ca6-b672-d8836721b722\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. businesses face the largest health insurance premium increase in over 15 years, with employer coverage costs rising about 9.5% in 2026. Family-plan premiums average $25,500, driven by higher healthcare prices, increased service use, chronic illnesses, and costly drugs like GLP-1s. Companies are redesigning plans or shifting costs to employees, while government exchange premiums may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harringtoninsuranceagency.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}