Key Highlights
- Concerned shoppers, wondering if there's anything they can do, are consulting insurance brokers or talking to representatives at ACA marketplace call centers.
- "We're hearing from people with complex medical conditions who don't think they can survive if they don't have access to medical care," said Audrey Morse Gasteier, executive director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, that state's insurance marketplace.
- And some are considering going outside the ACA to find more affordable options.
- But that requires caution.
- Congress is unlikely to extend the enhanced subsidies before the year's end.