The college town of Charlottesville, Va., is fast becoming the exemplar for millions of people without federal subsidies whose health-insurance premiums will rise sharply next year. Its county, Albemarle, will have the highest costs in the nation in 2018 for people on the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. Hundreds of residents who buy their own insurance, but earn too much for federal help, have banded together in the past two weeks, trying to pressure Congress for some kind of relief.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 30, 2017 10:30 UTC