New Mexicans will face some of the highest Affordable Care Act rate increases in the country next year, when the cost of some plans will spike by as much as 52.2%, according to the state Office of the Superintendent of Insurance.

The average price increase for individual plans sold through BeWell, New Mexico’s health insurance marketplace, will be 35.7%, the OSI said — the fourth-highest average ACA rate increase of any state in the nation, according to a Journal analysis of marketplace data compiled by health policy nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation.

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