Rev. Dr. Marion Talley, an Affordable Care Act navigator in Jackson, said the change is already showing up in the people she’s helping enroll.
“I just finished with a person who was paid five dollars and her cheapest policy was two hundred and fifty dollars … So, obviously, they cannot handle that.”
Talley works with Get Covered Mississippi through Oak Hill Regional CDC and said she’s spent years helping people sign up. She described this open-enrollment season as “very, very difficult,” with some clients who had been paying token premiums now seeing triple-digit monthly costs, even before accounting for high deductibles…