Congressional Stupidity

Congress, members of which receive generous health insurance coverage courtesy of taxpayers, still doesn't get it about COBRA coverage. It's STILL unaffordable:

Under a dramatic, temporary expansion of COBRA, the law that lets the unemployed keep health insurance from their old job for up to 18 months if they pay for it in full, costs would drop by about two-thirds for a year.

Moreover, people who lose a job they've had for 10 years could stay on COBRA at their expense all the way to age 65, when Medicare takes over, if they don't get another job with insurance first. People 55 and over could do the same without meeting the 10-year requirement.

It's so expensive for people to extend that insurance now that many don't do it. It can quickly eat up a majority of unemployment benefits.

Oh, sure, at $500 or $600 a month for a single person. On what fucking planet do these legislators live? All COBRA does is benefit the well-off workers, NOT the overwhelming majority.

What is needed is universal health insurance.