Nearly 643,000 Tennesseans are now learning what they will have to pay if they want to keep their same health plan through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace in 2026.

“I couldn’t financially afford life with a different plan, quite frankly. I’m at the doctor so, so much,” says Kimberly Daft, owner of Lawrence & Clarke Cacti Co, who recently went home from the hospital after a six-day stay and expects to have surgery later this year.

Daft is covered by Cigna, which offers a plan on the state’s Marketplace. This week, she went online to find her new rate since she hadn’t seen anything come in the mail.

The monthly premium to cover herself and her husband is jumping from $60 a month to more than $360. If not for a downturn in income from her houseplant business in Old Hickory, she says sh

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