One of the causes that I follow and blog about occasionally is the issue of health care access. Recently on my personal blog I posted my four reasons for healthcare reform.
Zane Safrit is a fellow blogger that often writes about health care. (Here’s a link to many of his healthcare posts.)
Via Zane’s Twitter stream I found this link to a New York Times article. It reports that Millions With Chronic Disease Get Little to No Treatment because they are among the nation’s growing ranks of uninsured.
I also recently discovered another passionate blogger who’s right in the heart of helping the uninsured. Brenda Hook works at Good Samaritan Clinic in Fort Smith, Arkansas and writes about providing health care for the uninsured on The Samaritan’s Blog.
I’m really excited about learning more from Brenda. While I know about the health care problem and have had some limited experience with it, she has a lot of direct experience. Take yesterday’s post for example. She explains why most unemployed people do not have COBRA. I have gone through a layoff where the COBRA was totally unaffordable. Thankfully it was a short period of unemployment and I didn’t get sick. But I imagine the thousands of families, especially those with chronic conditions, who go unemployed for months, what a stress that would be.
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The other risk if you can’t afford to sign up for COBRA and you’re unemployed for more than a short time is that you’ll lose your “portability.” Some states have laws that require your next insurer to cover your chronic problems as long as you’ve had continuous coverage — but once you go without coverage for a while, even if you get a job with insurance, it may not cover any of your pre-existing conditions.
I also blog about the problems of the uninsured at illinillinois.blogspot.com
Great point. There’s a big risk in not taking COBRA. It’s a very bad predicament to be in.