Health care premiums for Affordable Care Act plans offered through the insurance marketplace in North Carolina will rise by an average of nearly 30 percent.

WRAL reported in August that health insurance companies were planning the rate hikes . The Department of Insurance made those rate increases official Wednesday.

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About 1 million North Carolinians purchase ACA plans.

The rate increases for individual policies range from 16.88% to 36.4%, while the increases for group policies range from 12.66% to 17.5%.

Open enrollment begins Nov. 1. North Carolina is not alone in seeing rate increases with premiums soaring across the country .

And even more rate hikes could soon be on the way, depending on how the ongoing federal government shutdown is eventually re

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