Submitted Photo According to state data, roughly 50,000 North Dakotans get their health coverage through the ACA marketplace. Photo from Adobe Stock.

Signing up for health coverage is an important but no-so-fun task and for North Dakotans with Affordable Care Act plans, this year’s enrollment comes with added stress amid uncertainty over expiring tax credits.

Enhanced federal subsidies for health insurance marketplace customers expire at year’s end. Whether to extend them is a major factor in the government shutdown, prompting fears millions of people will pay much more without the credits. Enrollment begins Nov. 1 and a statewide assistance group hopes people do not panic.

Lindsey Karlson, director of programs and training for the Community HealthCare Association of the Dakotas, said e

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