‘An Arm and a Leg’ podcast explores the cost of health care in the U.S. (Illinois Public Radio)

What could the 2026 midterms mean for the cost of health care?

ou can check: Is your Medicare Advantage plan ending? What are your options?

Medicare’s annual open enrollment period kicks off today and millions of seniors on privatized Medicare plans — many more than expected — will have to find new plans next year.

Hey there — In the next week, at least two million seniors will get letters telling them their Medicare plan is going away — and they may not have great options to replace it. The same thing happened to almost three million people last year. It wasn’t pretty.  Experts say this is a new trend, and the dynamics behind it

Why workplace health insurance is in trouble: in three charts.