{"id":66838,"date":"2025-11-27T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66838\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T02:30:08","slug":"abc-7-xtra-sunday-insurance-and-affordable-care-act-coverage-questions-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66838\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC-7 Xtra Sunday \u2013 Insurance and Affordable Care Act coverage questions answered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Open enrollment season for insurance and the Affordable Care Act marketplace is going on now, and ABC-7 is here to help answer your questions.<\/p>\n<p>Rapidly-approaching deadlines to secure coverage for next year are colliding with recent changes to federal subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>With millions across the country evaluating their healthcare options, many are encountering the reality of the predicted increase in costs from the end of enhanced tax credits for marketplace plans under the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p>So what will that mean for many in our region &#8211; and what are the most pressing questions people have about their coverage?<\/p>\n<p>Join host Andrew J. Polk as he talks with hear from local healthcare and insurance experts Gilbert Ramos\u00a0with Ramos Insurance and Ian Escalante\u00a0with Health Plans of Texas\u00a0on\u00a0the most pressing questions people have about their coverage.\u00a0Tune in Sunday at 10:35 p.m., right after ABC-7 at 10 Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) &#8212; Open enrollment season for insurance and the Affordable Care Act marketplace is going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-66838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}