Catalina Jaramillo is beginning to envision what her life in South Florida will look like without the financial help that allows her to afford health insurance, medication, and treatment for a series of ailments. Jaramillo has been insured through the Affordable Care Act since being diagnosed with acute kidney disease in 2022, when she was 39.
Expanded subsidies help her afford the coverage—and they will expire at the end of the year unless Congress extends them. Jaramillo told me she has little doubt that her life would begin to unravel without them. Her monthly health-insurance premium would more than double, and the treatment she depends on to manage her vulnerable kidneys and other health issues would become prohibitively expensive. “I’m terrified. I’m kind of like a deer in the headlights,” she said.
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