{"id":18043,"date":"2026-01-22T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/insurers-point-to-providers-drugmakers-for-driving-up-health-costs-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:22:19","slug":"insurers-point-to-providers-drugmakers-for-driving-up-health-costs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/insurers-point-to-providers-drugmakers-for-driving-up-health-costs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurers point to providers, drugmakers for driving up health costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance CEOs testifying before Congress about whether they&#8217;re to blame for soaring health care costs have a plan: pass the buck. Five CEOs of major insurers will make the case that the health care premiums they set are rising because of prices charged by other health care players &mdash; like hospitals and drugmakers &mdash; according to their prepared testimony&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/21\/congress\/insurers-point-to-providers-drugmakers-for-driving-up-health-costs-00740427\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health insurance CEOs testifying before Congress about whether they&#8217;re to blame for soaring health care costs have a plan: pass the buck. Five CEOs of major insurers will make the case that the health care premiums they set are rising because of prices charged by other health care players &mdash; like hospitals and drugmakers &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}