Editorial: Insurers pushing past affordability with rate-hike bids

Editorial: Insurers pushing past affordability with rate-hike bids

It’s a sad state of affairs when the governor and the commonwealth’s health-insurance oversight agency can claim victory by keeping the increase in the premiums that businesses and thousands of individuals in this state pay to just two or three times the health-care cost growth benchmark. But that appeared to be the case after state regulators on Monday agreed to let some insurers raise their rates in 2026 anywhere from 7% to 12%. Gov. Maura Hea…