Health benefit subsidies for jobless expiring; congressional …

At issue is a provision of the economic stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama in February that cut the price tag for COBRA, the federal program that allows workers to keep their company’s health insurance plan after they leave their job. Prior to passage of the stimulus bill … The result will be tens of thousands of workers added to the rolls of the uninsured at a time when costs for people trying to buy insurance on their own are rising, Families USA says. …

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