Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Got Insurance?
Consider yourself lucky. There are a couple of shining examples of just how bad things are for a lot of folks today.
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Welcome! Once a journalist, always a journalist. I left the news business to try something completely different (for a time), but realized I still felt the need to keep up with all that's going on around us. So, this blog emerged as a way for me to filter some of what I feel is important, interesting or funny and pass it along to you. Enjoy! And, feel free to comment on any post.
Since spring 2007, 3.5 million Americans have lost their health benefits and are now uninsured. And while the stimulus begins to address the skyrocketing health costs and lack of access to coverage, the ranks of the uninsured will only grow as the recession persists. In fact, according to a forthcoming analysis by The Wonk Room’s [...]
People in their 20s who lack insurance may try everything from self-diagnoses to borrowing [...]