Extending your workplace health coverage
April 29, 2009 by Jennifer Chait
Filed under Health & Wellness, health
USA Today just ran a good piece about how to extend your health care coverage if you’ve been laid off, a piece, that sadly, many of the workers in the U.S. can use right now. Most of us have heard of the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), which allows you to extend your health care coverage, but it’s always been hyper expensive to do so, which makes little sense, since the last thing people without work need is way higher health care costs.
The USA Today piece points out that now the new economic stimulus package enacted this year …read more
