Cheaper health insurance changed their lives. Then it went away.

Subsidized Affordable Care Act plans for diabetes patients in Mississippi expired after Congress allowed federal enhanced subsidies to end at the close of last year. This loss of coverage affects Derrick Clark and over 200,000 other Mississippians, leading to a rise in uninsured diabetic individuals. According to state data, enrollment in ACA plans has dropped by nearly two-thirds in just eight months.