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Originally Posted by sadaist
Hell, it was more like 5 times what I was paying. COBRA is fucking expensive. And cutting it on unemployment, a PB & J barely cuts it on unemployment.
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The cost of Cobra is just the real cost of the insurance that your employer was paying. So you can continue to keep your insurance, it's just that you have to pay for it, because your employer isn't contributing any more.
There's no magical formula to making the insurance cheaper. You may be able to cut a little here or there, but the cost of a doctor is the cost of a doctor. But what you want is for someone to flat-out pay for your insurance for you if you're unemployed. And that's bullshit.
If you want insurance when you're unemployed, I offer you three choices: save your cash while you're working and resist the temptation of that shiny red pickup, get another job, or go without. Another option to get cheap, basic insurance while you're looking for another job. Maybe you just can't afford the high-line insurance if you don't have an employer willing to help you pay the premium.
In sum, you lazy redneck fuckers need to give up on your dream of having another taxpayer pay your way through life. Ford's had the welfare dream his whole life, and look where it's gotten him: fat, disgruntled, and stupid. Look where it got JHale - he became the boy who cries racism.