"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:
Unless your company went bankrupt, use your cobra.

"Bob" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:55:43 -0400, Harry Krause
wrote:

thunder wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:26:47 -0400, P. Fritz wrote:


And most are temporarily out of work, just the the majjority that
lack
health insurance...it is a temporary condition, besides, basic
economics
teaches that around 5% unemployment is healthy.......if the labor
poor
shrinks too much further, it leads to a rapid increase in labor
cost,
which can cause rapid inflation.

I'm assuming a typo, that you really wanted to say "labor pool", but
I
find your usage somewhat telling.


Don't you just love it when some crazed conservative proclaims that
unemployment is a good thing, and that being unprotected by health
insurance is only a "temporary" condition?



yeah especially when they deny us health benefits, etc.
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For someone who has been laid off, Cobra costs probably as much as any
unemployment compensation. It is not the answer.

Welcome to America...

But lack of insurance while unemployed and you have assets, is a disaster
waiting. Anybody and especially someone in the high tech and especially the
semiconductor and diskdrive worlds should have enough savings to tide you
over for a year. So many people lived to the max of their paychecks. And
they were normally big paychecks for anyone with a degree.