{"id":12203,"date":"2018-12-14T07:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2018-12-14T07:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T12:01:17","slug":"health-insurance-costs-crushing-many-people-who-dont-get-federal-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12203","title":{"rendered":"Health Insurance Costs Crushing Many People Who Don\u2019t Get Federal Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Steven Findlay for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Like millions of Americans in this final week of open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act marketplaces, Diane McCabe is shopping for health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt my age, I can\u2019t go without it even though I\u2019m healthy now,\u201d said McCabe, 62, a self-employed real estate agent in Luzerne County, Pa. \u201cBut the process is frustrating, and the expense significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because McCabe is one of the 5 million people who buy their own coverage and pay the full cost. Her income is too high to qualify for a government subsidy to help defray the premium. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/health-insurance-costs-crushing-many-people-who-dont-get-federal-subsidies\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68331503&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9qgQeju6hCafiH-uLpQ_VCQuuXvlTv6J9WOGTFb1datcsTFaj27aznaLouLICeIls4_8NBLaN1FF-Y7SxHZGfdibG4Aw&amp;_hsmi=68331503\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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