Health Insurance Expensive For Unemployed

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Health Insurance Expensive For Unemployed

January 13, 2009 | ISSUE 45•03

A report from the group Families USA says that the cost of maintaining health insurance for a family under COBRA consumes, on average, nearly 84 percent of a worker’s unemployment benefits. What do you think?

What are all those people doing getting medical care in the first place? They should be out trying to find jobs.

Daryl McCarthy
Pharmaceutical Researcher
Sure I lost my job and my health insurance, but I also lost my will to live, so it doesn't really matter.

Lori Connor
Electronics Repair
Fascinating. Say, that Families USA group wouldn’t happen to be hiring, would they?

Josh Duncan
Unemployed

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