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Premiums for the many Mainers who buy their own health insurance will increase by nearly 24 percent next year, under rates approved by the state’s Bureau of Insurance last week. For thousands of these Mainers, the situation may get even worse. Enhanced tax credits that have helped make health insurance more affordable for millions of Americans are set to expire without action from Congress. For some, the cost of health insurance may nearly double.

Because of these huge price increases, the Congressional Budget Office predicts that nearly 4 million of Americans, many of them in Maine, w

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