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What is the sustainability of Cobra? If we answered that simple question with some good honest statistics, then we might be on our way to a serious health care discussion.
Why haven't the health care reform advocates given us an analysis of plans like Cobra? Why haven't they examined Massachusetts and Hawaii's government plans and made detailed, statistical assessments of the failures and successes? Why are we only given the statistic about how many uninsured there are?
The health care reform presented by the current government is a total “trust us” phenomenon. It isn't about health care, but about government intervention. If it were truly about health care, they would be giving us serious facts and analysis.

My son has no health insurance, and he has no job and no way to pay for it. He is simply without. A few weeks ago, he got a very bad pain in his stomach, so bad that he lay in bed and moaned and groaned. Finally, he gave up and went to the University Hospital in Missouri. The doctor ran some tests and told him that he was full of feces and sent him home. His bill was over $600. He came home from the hospital and used laxatives, but he kept on getting worse and worse. Things were getting terrible, so he went back to the University Hospital. This time, he was told he had bacteria in his stomach that needed to be killed, and the doctor wrote a description. He stopped by Walmart to check the price, and the price was just over $500 for two packs of pills. This Amount of money, he simply did not have, so he called Canada and he found that he could get the very same pills for $239 with the postage. So he ordered these pills, even though they did not come for 3 weeks, So my son was moaning and groaning, and my older son read the Internet about this. The internet said that vitamin C was good for this. Vitamin C would not heal him, but it would keep him from moaning and groaning. Finally now, he has taken his pills and he is okay. I blame the USA Congress for not allowing us to buy medicine from Canada. I am 75 years old, and I am on SS, but none of my 4 children have jobs and have moved in with me. I buy all of the food. Congress is robbing us while they favor the pharmaceuticals. We need people in Congress who cares for the people and what happens to them.