Report: Continuing insurance can exceed amout of unemployment benefit ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune

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 ...

COBRA Insurance Largely Unaffordable - Eflux Media

Health insurance has a become a big issue as more and more people are laid off due to the financial crisis, their options being either seeking new individual health insurance or using the COBRA plan, which was created especially for laid-off workers ...

Unemployment and Health Insurance - CBS42.com

President-Elect Barack Obama is working to find a way to help more than 2.5 million Americans who lost their jobs in 2008. It's a critical effort because many of those unemployed, are living without health insurance

Flushing Township trustees eliminate their own health insurance and ... - MLive.com

FLUSHING TOWNSHIP, Michigan — In one fell swoop, the Township Board voted away its own benefits Thursday. During the meeting, Trustee Michael Gardner made a motion that the board of seven eliminate pension benefits, health, life and disability ...

Health Insurance CEOs Get Big Raises - Boston Channel

BOSTON -- Team 5 Investigates Janet Wu has learned that CEOs of the state's three biggest health insurance non-profit companies have all received double-digit raises in recent years, while patients face eight to twelve percent annual premium ...