HB, If by work you mean there is a slight chance they'll vote to put it to a vote after mid-term elections in November - lol It's still very frustrating. Admittedly, healthcare is a good stumping issue, and if handled correctly will light enough fires to get constituents on the phone; or better yet, use the very text we (here in the US) blog with, copy and paste and put in an email to representatives. One letter can be copied any number of times ...
After back reading several more times this morning though my response is gonna take a little longer. Having grown up an Army brat, I was covered 'til 23 (coverage has changed significantly for dependents since then). Working for two large global corporations well into my thirties, I also had the luxury of splitting the cost of benefits with my employers at an extremely generous rate (mid-eighties - late-nineties). Now have no coverage and fall well in the middle category WAI mentioned to much to receive govt assistance, too little to afford private ...
I do remember in between jobs in the nineties there being enacted HIPPA / COBRA for those with coverage and per-existing conditions. I want to research those again to see if there is a loophole that might help 'Freeze before I comment on that; although, I'm sure having the fire and determination he has, I'm sure he's left no stone unturned in this regard. I hope you don't mind my looking again, though : )
well, at least there is a slight chance your government will acomplish something. ours is doomed to yammering on, untill one party forces an election which sounds like it is coming soon.
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Oh my! A discussion about yammering politicians and healthcare reform. Two topics I can't pass up - lol 'Will have to wait 'til I return from dropping the youngling off at practice.
To tempt your mind though: I think this yammering has been going on while the US congress has been in recess for the Summer. So I don't believe much could have been done until they return, which I believe will be today.
