Posted on 03/13/2009 1:16:58 PM PDT by mainestategop
Gov. John Baldacci wants to use $15 million made available through the federal stimulus package to help an estimated 8,000 unemployed Mainers maintain health care insurance.
Under the proposal, eligible laid-off workers would receive vouchers to help pay for continued employer-based coverage through the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, known as COBRA.
A subsidy would be made available to laid-off workers whose employers were too small – fewer than 20 employees – to fall under COBRA requirements. The assistance would be limited to nine months.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.mainetoday.com ...
He needs to be honest. Dirgo is not paying health care providers. The system is broke.
Well, sheet. Why not help us fund auto insurance since we need our cars to drive to work or to look for work? Be sure to include the illegal aliens because they won’t buy auto insurance otherwise! < / sarcasm >
Didn’t Obama just put something through that pays 65% of the COBRA premiums, and some other deal that gets 11 million additional children some free health insurance? How about we just give up our own health insurance so we can pay for everyone else’s?
Yeah, I saw this the other day I haven’t seen anything to confirm it.
Whuke U can see the need to expand the time unemployment insurance should be lengthened I am against the welfare and victim mentality the Obambi administration is expanding.
Whuke U can see the need to expand the time unemployment insurance should be lengthened I am against the welfare and victim mentality the Obambi administration is expanding.
Yes, those of us who lost our jobs and have preexisting conditions and can’t afford COBRA and still eat should
just have the decency to go off and die quietly and not
be such a bother.
Doesn’t Maine have some kind of Medicaid/state program and/or providers have to provide medical care whether a person has insurance or not?
I don’t know much about it but it’s called Dirigo Health. My understanding is that costs (to the state)are high and enrollment is way under projections. I think that it subsidizes your health insurance, the amount of subsidy based on your annual income.
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