Seeing how lousy the economy is ... and the AGE of these folks ... should they be denied health care coverage after 18 months? Yes, this will cost employers more but should they be without coverage when atleast they WORKED and out of no choice of their own are out on the street? Are they less valuable because of their AGE? Look at Medicare and ILLEGAS being given health care. How do you address this with NO INCOME but a measly unemployment income coming in?
This was the one part of the bill (over 55 COBRA) that would have done me some good, even if (as I expected to) I paid the entire amount. Health care is completely screwed up because of government mandates which rob Peter to pay Paul. God help you if you fall off the insurance bandwagon, and have to pay the "normal" price, which is actually a government sanctioned opportunity to rip-off the consumer. As Howie Carr says, "I wanna be an illegal alien!" (bugle plays).
“The problem is health care is over priced.”
Do you have any idea what the cost of AIDS, a preventable disease, is? How about the cost of covering illegals.
There I slashed health costs.