Dane County residents fear skyrocketing health insurance premiums

A rural Dane County family’s experience illustrates the way thousands across Wisconsin will be affected by skyrocketing health care costs if Congress does not fund expanded subsidies for insurance plans under the Affordable Care Act. 

Rachel LaCasse-Ford is one of more than 300,000 state residents who have health insurance through the federal marketplace. New data from the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance shows nearly 280,000 could see the monthly cost of their health care drastically increase if members of Congress don’t extend a series of subsidies that keep individual costs low. 

Now, as the government shutdown continues and Congress remains in a partisan stalemate over the health care subsidies, LaCasse-Ford fears some of their monthly insurance costs will more than double.