Feds may make health insurance easier after layoff
AP/Yahoo News, February 2, 2009
It will get vastly cheaper for most people to keep health insurance after losing a job if the government's stimulus plan becomes law. But the billions to be poured into healthcare from the economic stimulus package will do little, if anything, about the chronic conditions behind the nation's large ranks of uninsured. Instead the plan is a temporary lifeline, hasty measures for nearly desperate times, according to this article from the Associated Press.
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