CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - Tax credits for the Affordable Care Act are set to expire at the end of the year, meaning health insurance premiums for millions will rise.

Terry Davis spent Saturday morning at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids getting help learning about enrolling in health insurance. With health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, she’s bracing for her premiums to become much more expensive.

“With them being taken away, it’s going to affect us quite a bit, it would make our insurance probably be at least $3,000 a month, there’s no way,” Davis said. “That’s gonna take all of my husband and I’s income and we are in our 60’s.”

Davis and her husband are self-employed, and she said they pay just under $500 a month. Part of the reason she came to Mercy Saturd

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