Health insurance premiums on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces are set to soar after Congress failed Thursday to pass a last-minute plan to avert the rate hikes.

As many as four million people could be forced to go uninsured, because they can no longer afford their health plan. I spoke with some of them earlier this fall. These are working parents, entrepreneurs, and retirees — all now facing impossible choices because of the loss of their government aid.

They are fed up with their livelihoods being exploited for politics, and it’s this population — those with health insurance subsidized by the federal government — who, in particular, think Republicans have dropped the ball.

A recent survey found that 76 percent of people who get their insurance through the ACA and want the subsidi

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