Amid legal attack on key health-law provision, uncertainty and uproar

Robin Dake recalls a time when health insurance was financially out of reach for her and her two daughters ​– with the prospect of premiums of about $900 a month.

 “I couldn't afford it. I simply had no insurance for a while. And that's pretty terrifying as a mom,” she says.

The arrival of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) changed things in a big way. Even though one of her  daughters has what’s known in insurance jargon as a “preexisting condition” – in her case a seizure disorder – Ms. Dake has been able to  afford insurance as a self-employed single parent in rural Georgia.

Now, her daughter, Tory, who is studying to be a doctor, dreams about opening up a clinic one day where people “don’t have to worry about insurance.” Currently, just one of her own medicines can cost up to $600 a month or more without insurance. When

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