In just a few weeks, enhanced premium tax credits that make health insurance on the individual and small group markets more affordable for 54,000 Mainers will expire.

At a roundtable at Greater Portland Health in South Portland Monday organized by Governor Janet Mills and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, consumers swapped stories — and numbers. Because without enhanced premium tax credits, they're facing exponential increases in their premiums next year. Some said they'll have to pay tens of thousands of dollars. Ossian Riday said his premiums will more than double to $29,000 a year.

"And my family's on one of the lowest plans possible," he said.

Riday is a software developer in Topsham. He said the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace made it possible for him to start his business, a

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