Health insurers facing growing criticism over rising premiums are trying to shift the narrative by portraying hospitals and drugmakers as the real culprits behind health care’s affordability crisis. Insurers and employer-backed advocacy groups such as Better Solutions for Healthcare and its Hospital Watch initiative are running ads pointing out hospitals’ outsized presence in some markets, with messages like “hospital monopolies put profits over patients.” Insurers also are touting voluntary moves they’ve made to cut down “prior authorization” reviews of doctor-ordered treatments.
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Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/26/insurers-blame-affordability-health