CNBC September 11, 2025
Key Points
– Medical care costs rose 4.2% in August, according to the Consumer Price Index, now at the highest level in three years.
– Large employers are projecting a 9% increase in overall health care spending for 2026, and a 12% increase when it comes to drug spending, fueled by high-priced cancer drugs and GLP-1s for weight loss.
– There’s been a surge in workers using flexible spending and health savings accounts to buy GLP-1s in the cash-pay market
– Employers are beginning to explore new payment models to get low cash-market pricing for their own health plans
Health-care inflation is fueling higher coverage costs, setting the stage for what could be the largest increase in health-care spending by...
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