{
  "id": 8930748,
  "title": "Study links soaring health care spending to higher insurance premiums",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/study-links-soaring-health-care-spending-to-higher-insurance-premiums",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-21T13:40:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-links-soaring-health-higher-premiums.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A new study co-authored by Yale economist Zack Cooper links the rising cost of healthcare spending in the United States to the increase in health insurance premiums. The research, which analyzed state-level data on insurance premiums, health spending, and insurer markups from 2011 to 2024, found that rising spending accounted for 91% of the growth in premiums during the period. Cooper, who directs the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale, emphasized that efforts to address high insurance premiums should focus on making healthcare spending more affordable. The study, published in JAMA Health Forum, highlights that since 2011, private health insurance premiums have grown by 78%, double the rate of inflation over the same period.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}