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Scores of Alaskans face another eye-watering spike in their health care costs next year

Late last year, when I went to sign up for my 2024 health insurance on the federal Obamacare marketplace, the options all seemed expensive — more expensive than what I paid in 2023.

A perk of being an independent news publisher is that instead of just grousing about this to my family and friends, I also had a legitimate pretext to ask Alaska’s top insurance regulator: What’s going on?

She responded 16 minutes later with exactly what I was looking for: a chart showing that, indeed, the plans offered by my insurer, Premera, rose an average of 16.7% between 2023 and 2024 — on top of a 19.5% incre...

 

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