Healthcare workers face soaring health insurance costs

BOISE, Idaho — Joshua and Ashley Durham run a family medicine practice, and for the first time in their lives, they have no health insurance.

When the Durhams began their practice at the end of 2023 — he as a primary care physician and she as a pharmacist who handles the billing — the couple bought coverage for themselves and their two kids on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.

This year, they said their monthly premiums for a similar health plan rose several hundred dollars to almost $1,600…

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