Rebecca Yates Discusses Rising Costs | Ark Insurance Solutions

Ark Founder & CEO Rebecca Yates Addresses Rising Health Insurance Costs with the Wall Street Journal

When The Wall Street Journal needed an expert voice on how Americans are responding to escalating costs of health insurance premiums, they turned to our founder Rebecca Yates for the local, human side of the story.

In her conversation with WSJ reporters Alex Ossola and Rachel Ensign, Yates shared what she’s been seeing as clients face policies that have ballooned in price—forcing some to make impossible choices between coverage and basic life essentials.

“I’ve had people telling me that they are just going to go completely without insurance,” said Yates. “And these are not people that have not used the system. I mean, we’ve had people that had a heart attack in the last year that have just said, ‘I can’t,’ because their premium went from $200 to over $2,200.”

Making Change at a National Level

This isn’t Yates’s first time bringing in-depth, firsthand knowledge into national healthcare discussions. She’s participated in a Healthcare.gov working group since 2017 and serves on the Utah Rare Disease Advocacy Council. The WSJ podcast is just one of the ways she has worked to address the challenging circumstances many Americans currently face in making decisions about their health care plan.

As Congress debates whether to restore subsidies, voices like Yates’ connect policy decisions to kitchen table reality, helping lawmakers understand what happens when skyrocketing costs prevent people from accessing adequate health insurance.

To listen to the podcast, click here.