Roughly 220,000 New Yorkers enrolled in Affordable Care Act health plans are about to get sticker shock as a root of the government shutdown in Washington hits home on their insurance bills.

The state is set to send renewal notices to enrollees to start signups on Nov. 1 for another year of coverage through a host of private insurers. That's the first glimpse many will get of the 38% average premium jump that state officials say enrollees will face when federal subsidies that were holding down the costs expire at the end of the year — unless Congress renews them.

Democrats' push to keep the subsidies and avert a cost spike helped stoke the partisan deadlock in Congress that brought much of the government to a halt on Oct. 1.

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