Healthcare costs are only expected to rise due to budget cuts in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India)

San Antonio ranks among U.S. cities where residents spend the most on healthcare, according to a study released Monday by personal finance site WalletHub.

San Antonians spend nearly 9% of their median monthly income on health care needs, the highest percentage of an Texas city on the list and the 13th highest in the nation.

To determine where folks are spending the most on healthcare, Wallethub analyzed the prices of five key healthcare components in the nation’s 100 largest cities. To complete the rankings, researchers then added those costs together and compared them to the median household incomes for each city.

Detroit residents spent the most, with healthcare costs consuming 13% of their monthly median incomes. Meanwhile, those living in Gilbert, Arizona, spent the least at 3.5%.

“While some cities have lower prices than others, the average income in many places still may not be enough to keep up with the costs, especially when consumers have also faced inflated prices across all other facets of their budgets over the past few years,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said in a statement.

Indeed, it’s perhaps not surprising that Alamo City residents are getting the short end of the stick when it comes to healthcare costs. About 15% of San Antonio’s population lacks health insurance — well above the national average of 8%. Texas more uninsured people per capita than any other state.

What’s more, health care costs are expected to skyrocket in the coming months due to President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill, which slashes Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) spending by $1 trillion, eliminating at least 10.5 million people from the program by 2034, according to a July report from the Center for American Progress.

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Michael Karlis is a multimedia journalist at the San Antonio Current, whose coverage in print and on social media focuses on local and state politics. He is a graduate of American University in Washington,...