COBRA is in NY & CT over $1,000 a month. Its a big nut for someone unemployed. This is not about conservative or liberal or whatever. It’s reality. I’m not advocating anything here. You give an example of one type of person who is ignoring responsibility. How about the person who never made a really good living and lives within their means. It’s not being conservative to look at one side and not the other. That’s what libs do.
There are always some people who have been responsible all their lives and fall on hard times through no fault of their own — that is what the “safety net” supposed to be for.
Unfortunately, from what I have seen, a very large fraction of those receiving government aid or counting on government bail out, if they should get sick. They could well afford insurance, if they adjusted their priorities. Those are the ones I was talking about. There are way too many of them, just from what I have seen personally. And some of the posters here are trying to justify irresponsible behavior. They don’t want to give up anything, to make sure that their family has insurance, in case something happens, they feel “entitled”, then they blame Wall Street, insurance companies, everyone, but themselves.
COBRA is the full cost of what the insurance is costing.
“COBRA is in NY & CT over $1,000 a month.”