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When the cost of Lori Lay's ACA premiums exploded into half of her income, she faced the devastating risk of her family becoming uninsured. When her son suffered a serious car accident, she realized just how dangerous that possibility could be.
Diagnosed with a life-threatening immune deficiency at 19, Brick Williams relies on expensive plasma-based treatments to stay healthy and work full-time as a music teacher. The Affordable Care Act made his self-employment sustainable, but the expiration of enhanced premium tax credits could force him to abandon his career or face financial ruin.
Cassenda Nelson lives in Camilla, a rural community in southwest Georgia, where health care is limited and resources are hard to come by. She’s a mother of four, a community health worker, and the full-time caregiver to her daughter Amunet, who lives with type 2 diabetes and experiences seizures.