Buffalo Boy's Blog

Congress has shot down one of the healthcare subsidies that since last year was allowing those who were laid off, fired or recently unemployed to get up to 65% of their COBRA payments subsidized by the government.

Someone tell me why this a bad thing? For those of you who have been laid off or have been faced with losing your health insurance from your employer you understand where Im coming from. Last summer my wife and I faced that and her employer wouldn't apply the subsidy to her COBRA. It was either pay $1000 per month out of pocket for family coverage for the two of us or lose our health insurance.

The guy in the above article is facing losing his job and will have to pay $1500 per month, more than a lot of peoples mortgages, just to keep his health insurance for his family.

How does a family afford that when one person is laid off?

This isn't welfare folks. This is human decency that there is some sort of subsidy to keep these people insured. This is where it comes down to my opinion that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. In countries like Canada they obviously value their citizens more than we do, they have a right to affordable healthcare through their government. Ours takes it away. Healthcare for all citizens isn't socialism. Its called altruism. Unconditionally caring about every human being especially those that are citizens of this country.