NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — When Brittany Spradling found a lump in 2022, she was a 40-year-old mother of two running her own small business.

Doctors told her it was an aggressive form of breast cancer.

What she expected to be a simple surgery turned into a marathon: bilateral mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and reconstruction.

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Last summer, the cancer returned. She is now living with Stage IV metastatic cancer.

Spradling's insurance comes through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, coverage that's only affordable because of federal subsidies.

She and other cancer patients could see their health insurance costs skyrocket to life changing levels if federal healthcare subsidies expire.

Without them, she said, her

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