ATLANTA - Lynette Broughton, has been shopping for health insurance since open enrollment got underway on November 1. Simply put, the math simply doesn’t add up.

By the numbers:

Broughton pays $1,895 a month for an apartment in the city for herself and her child. Until recently, her monthly health-insurance premium was $28. Now she has learned her new premium will be $1,717.19 a month — an increase she says she cannot absorb.

"I used to have UnitedHealthcare. Now it’s Oscar, where the prices jumped dramatically," Broughton said.

Looking for help, she visited Power Atlanta, a newly launched and the only approved health-care navigator in Georgia for the current open-enrollment period.

"We’re doing about 30 to 50 appointments a week, and we’re hoping to bring more people in to match th

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