“If we didn’t have health issues, I’d just go back to where I was in my 40s and not have health insurance. But we’re not in that position now.”

Cynthia Freeman, a New York-based performer who has been trying to figure out how to keep her and her husband’s ACA plan in the midst of spiking premiums. Freeman’s husband, Brad Lawrence, was diagnosed with kidney disease last fall and cannot face a lapse in health insurance. But the family cannot afford the new price of their plan. [KFF Health News]