DENVER — With Congress on its summer recess, some lawmakers, including those in Colorado, are hearing from people who are concerned about rising health care costs, including those who buy their health insurance on the individual marketplace.

Federal tax credits that help lower monthly premiums will expire at the end of the year. Enrollees and healthcare advocates are urging Congress to extend the tax credits, warning that failure to do so will lead to skyrocketing costs for more than 300,000 Coloradans.

“I wake up every day thinking about it. I go to sleep every day thinking about it," Chelsey Baker-Hauck told Denver7. “It's difficult for me to walk, talk, eat, breathe, basically do all the functions of living."

Baker-Hauck could easily be talking about the daily struggles of living wit

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