Posted on 04/21/2021 2:15:37 PM PDT by PhxRising
Due to the pandemic, Paige Santillo had been laid off from her job as a marketing manager at the publishing company Informa in October. As part of her severance package, the company paid her COBRA health insurance premiums through April. Come May, she’d be on her own with the $700 bill.
She didn’t know if she could afford that tab and, without coverage, she feared having to stop taking her medication for anxiety and depression. But then the American Rescue Plan passed in March, and the $1.9 trillion stimulus package included a provision that offered many unemployed workers free health insurance coverage through COBRA for six months, starting April 1.
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However, what about all of the people who lost their job over the past year who had to pay for COBRA coverage out-of-pocket? Why no love for people before April 1?
“You f’d up, you trusted us!”
[Why no love for people before April 1?]
Wow. It’s almost like Obamacare was a lie sold by liars to fools.
But that can’t be!
All Democrats and even some RINO’s assured us everything would be fine; just fine.
Insurance is not health care.
Paige learned what the term ‘bullshiite’ really means.
Come on man, we have to take care of the migrunts.
I know folks with free insurance.
The quality of their healthcare is lousy.
Free - and worth every penny!
Which is why so many folks with free insurance use ERs as walk-in care.
From November...
don’t the unemployed qualify for medicare.
If they are 65 and over, or disabled, yes.
She could vastly reduce her cost for medication for anxiety and depression by substituting Vitamin D3 supplements. I have seen it work in half a dozen including my daughter. There are doctors and researchers who say that Sunshne(vitamin D) is the only effective medication for depression.
+1
Thank you - we tried to tell them
My COBRA was $5600 a month (BCBS) - it was the same plan that all MLB employees and ballplayers get).
I’ve been without health insurance for a year, and since they use 2019 income to qualify for the free government healthcare, I was way over.
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