September 30, 2003 10:33 AM

Mr. Unemployed? Meet Ms. Uninsured
Posted by at 10:33 AM

Having been among the ranks of the unemployed, I well know the pain of monthly COBRA payments and having to buy direct from HMOs. At the time, I neither had the stomach nor circumstances to go without as some must, or else freely choose to do. I felt my gut lurch again when I read in the NYT's today that there's been another spike in the number of uninsured directly correlating to the rising ranks of the unemployed.

The number of people without health insurance shot up last year by 2.4 million, the largest increase in a decade, raising the total to 43.6 million, as health costs soared and many workers lost coverage provided by employers, the Census Bureau reported today.

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