Jobless face expiration of health benefit

[katty]

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34219386/ns/business-personal_finance/

updated 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - An auto parts employee laid off from his job last year has been able to hang onto his health insurance because the federal government has picked up most of the tab. That subsidy ends Tuesday for Don Hall and thousands of other Americans.

Hall's premiums will jump $500 a month, becoming unaffordable for him and his wife. A new study finds that many other workers will be in the same position unless Congress acts.

"That extra $500 is the difference between mortgage, insurance or a couple other items that are of course important to our health — food, utilities, those kinds of things," Hall, of Castalia, Ohio, said in a phone interview Monday

[endless october]

1. mine runs out in April.

not excited about that. hopefully i'll be employed before then.

[Nite Owl]

2. I thought their was talk about

extending this? Guess they didn't.
the budget cutting always ends up being on what people need.

[Doctor_J]

3. They're down to using the Repuke HC plan

1. Don't get sick
2. If you do, hurry up and die

[katty]

4. yeah, you are not human, never ill and please hurry up & croak

more room for elites.