(WHTM)-- A half million Pennsylvanians are about to get sticker shock for their health insurance premiums because an important tax credit has not been renewed by Congress.

Insurance officials in Pennsylvania are sounding the alarm on Monday because they don't seem to be heard in DC.

The Enhanced Premium Tax Credit was enacted during COVID to subsidize health insurance for individual, and lower income buyers on Pennsylvania's marketplace called Pennie.

Roughly a half million Pennsylvanians get their health insurance this way, but the tax credit expires at the end of the year. Open enrollment for Pennie is November 1.

Without the tax credit, those premiums are expected to soar beyond most Pennsylvanian's ability to pay, and the insurance commissioner fears that will chase people away.

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