Health Insurance No Bargain For Unemployed: Group - Post Chronicle

A U.S. program aimed at helping unemployed people keep their health insurance costs so much it is largely unaffordable, a health consumer group said in a report released on Friday. On average, health insurance plans available under the so-called ...

Unemployed squeezed on health insurance - Biloxi Sun Herald

WASHINGTON -- Newly unemployed Americans will have to spend about 30 percent of their jobless benefits on average to pay for health insurance through their former employer, according to a new report. And if they want coverage for their families, the ...

Health insurance no bargain for unemployed: group - HealthCentral.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. program aimed at helping unemployed people keep their health insurance costs so much it is largely unaffordable, a health consumer group said in a report released on Friday. On average, health insurance plans available ...

Report: Health insurance too costly for laid-off workers - Miami Herald

Most laid-off workers in Florida and across the nation can't afford to keep health insurance, according to a study from a Washington consumer group released Friday morning. The report, by Families USA, shows that monthly payments of COBRA, the ...

Out of work, with no health insurance - Minneapolis Star Tribune

Having been treated for cancer, and wife with type 2 diabetes, our ONLY option was COBRA or her "inferior" employer health plan. Even with … read more our "pre-conditions" we have paid more in health care premiums than our insurers have paid for ...