Money

Health Care

You have been laid off from your job.

You are single.

You have moved from your one bedroom apartment in with 4 other roommates and reduced your rent to $300/mo.

Your car payment is $140/mo and cost you some in maintenance to keep it running.

Unlike most Americans you don’t have any credit card debt.

Your car insurance is $1600/yr or $133/mo.

You have found a part time job making about $800/mo. You employer doesn’t pay for health insurance.

You can’t find a second job or a full time job.

You have $227/mo left over for food, gas, miscellaneous expenses and any utilities.

The average annual premium for single health care coverage is over $4,700 or $392/mo.

If you live in Oregon, you don’t qualify for the Oregon Health Plan.

“You are not likely to qualify for the Oregon Health Plan. Your income is too high.”

Congress continues to appropriate billions to bailout banks and insurance companies?

As usual, the government just doesn’t ‘get it’.

© 2009 apropos of nothing (à propos de rien).