The Affordable Care Act marketplace for health insurance opened Saturday. With an enhanced tax credit set to expire at the end of the year, Kansans face dramatically increased premiums.

Stephanie Barr of Prairie Village, Kansas, is a breast cancer survivor. Her healing journey, however, is still going on.

Radiation caused complications — a staph infection and an open wound — which required a brief hospital stay and, so far, two years of treatment. Now, Stephanie is nearly healed, thanks in part to a tax credit she's received from the Affordable Care Act.

But that credit is set to expire at the end of the year, which could mean significant bumps in her coverage costs.

“I am so close to having this wound healed but I am also now at a risk of losing my health insurance because my health i

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