Assuming that’s a legit and serious question: The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss>
It’ a big deal for people who are laid off and want health benefits between employment.
Interesting, thanks from me too. Over here in GB it is Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, and is where the scary national security emergency meetings happen.
Some acronyms are just easy to make and fun to use I guess. UNITY fulfilling one of those criteria.
the COBRA law gives people an option to keep workplace health insurance for a while longer if they can’t get coverage through other means…but you have to pay for the part your employer used to cover. Not a great option if you are unemployed, i.e. poor. And its temporary.
Without COBRA, there is no guarantee that you will be able to get insurance even if you are willing to pay. Especially at the price that the employer can negotiate for a group rate.
Nope, that’s America. “We can’t have universal health care in this country–that would turn us Communist, just like it has up in Canada!”
Sad part is, even after RomneyCare–I mean, “ObamaCare”, there are STILL conservative politicians insisting that REAL universal health care here in the US will actually lead to the country turning Communist! Never mind that Canada, almost all of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc. all have universal health care in some form or another, and none of them have joined the Warsaw Pact.
(Of course, my Canadian friends have pointed out that you can literally die of old age waiting for health care under their system, so…)
Because your other option is to have no coverage whatsoever. The really annoying thing is what you have covered by your employer simply might not be any option at all on COBRA. (F@#&$ing Kaiser COBRA does not cover durable medical equipment and there is practically no option available to have it covered even if I pay the insurance. A very serious concern for me.)
Seriously, part of being of getting to the stage in your life *after* you’ve had your first serious real job is maintaining benefits between one job to another.
It’s a serious hurdle in growing up and really facing life. A big deal. (Says the unemployed guy on medical whose COBRA has run out… s#*@$ my life sucks…. Seriously, Medical really, really effing sucks….)
Dunno that COBRA would apply to a department of the government that the Department of Irradiation purports to be…though if funded by a government grant it might be.
Still, ex-gummit employees should have access to better coverage, though psychological therapy might still not be covered…
If you don’t take it, you may face not being able to get any coverage, or having a waiting period before new coverage comes into effect. Many insurance companies will penalize you for having a gap in coverage. Stupid, but true.
The gummit has something in some places—where I work, it’s called the Employee Assistance Program. Don’t trust ’em, be careful what you say to ’em. They’ll listen to your complaints and problems, then tell your bosses what you’ve said or what’s wrong with you—and your bosses will use it against you.
He’s be better off just going to talk to the Cobras.
they would at least be stress relieving, which is a good first step
And if he has allergies, they can just bite him!
What does COBRA stand for?
Defeating GI Joe.
X°D
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Very good, sir. Very quick. Two thumbs up.
Assuming that’s a legit and serious question: The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss>
It’ a big deal for people who are laid off and want health benefits between employment.
It was a legit question. Thanks.
Interesting, thanks from me too. Over here in GB it is Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, and is where the scary national security emergency meetings happen.
Some acronyms are just easy to make and fun to use I guess. UNITY fulfilling one of those criteria.
Not just laid off. I got a new job at another company. Went on Cobra the month between when my old company’s coverage ended and the new began.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
the COBRA law gives people an option to keep workplace health insurance for a while longer if they can’t get coverage through other means…but you have to pay for the part your employer used to cover. Not a great option if you are unemployed, i.e. poor. And its temporary.
I don’t understand. You stay insured as long as you pay for your insurance? How is that doing anything?
Because America.
Without COBRA, there is no guarantee that you will be able to get insurance even if you are willing to pay. Especially at the price that the employer can negotiate for a group rate.
That is almost unbelievable.
Would that it were.
Nope, that’s America. “We can’t have universal health care in this country–that would turn us Communist, just like it has up in Canada!”
Sad part is, even after RomneyCare–I mean, “ObamaCare”, there are STILL conservative politicians insisting that REAL universal health care here in the US will actually lead to the country turning Communist! Never mind that Canada, almost all of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, etc. all have universal health care in some form or another, and none of them have joined the Warsaw Pact.
(Of course, my Canadian friends have pointed out that you can literally die of old age waiting for health care under their system, so…)
This is the country which has been described as having not a health care system, but a disease monetization system.
Because your other option is to have no coverage whatsoever. The really annoying thing is what you have covered by your employer simply might not be any option at all on COBRA. (F@#&$ing Kaiser COBRA does not cover durable medical equipment and there is practically no option available to have it covered even if I pay the insurance. A very serious concern for me.)
Seriously, part of being of getting to the stage in your life *after* you’ve had your first serious real job is maintaining benefits between one job to another.
It’s a serious hurdle in growing up and really facing life. A big deal. (Says the unemployed guy on medical whose COBRA has run out… s#*@$ my life sucks…. Seriously, Medical really, really effing sucks….)
Dunno that COBRA would apply to a department of the government that the Department of Irradiation purports to be…though if funded by a government grant it might be.
Still, ex-gummit employees should have access to better coverage, though psychological therapy might still not be covered…
I love Chris’s T-shirt.
Melvin Ferd would approve.
Chris’ COBRA is the less than adorable kund.
Honestly, the most unrealistic thing about this is that he actually took the cobra coverage.
If you don’t take it, you may face not being able to get any coverage, or having a waiting period before new coverage comes into effect. Many insurance companies will penalize you for having a gap in coverage. Stupid, but true.
Wine therapy!
If the guys in and around Skin Horse sure know how to do something, it’s how to whine…
“A makeover’s gonna fix my career?” Why not, it fixed his love life: http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-170/
Not to mention that it also saved the day. Without it, Chris would have only had a one-in-three chance of cutting the correct wire!
At least Tip acknowledges it’s some luck. Maybe even a lot of luck. Possbily nearly all luck. But not just luck!
Is there a shadow Department of Covert Psychological Counseling in some obscure government annex somewhere? Maybe that’s covered by his plan.
The gummit has something in some places—where I work, it’s called the Employee Assistance Program. Don’t trust ’em, be careful what you say to ’em. They’ll listen to your complaints and problems, then tell your bosses what you’ve said or what’s wrong with you—and your bosses will use it against you.
If they were pychologists, that would be considered unethical. And for good reason.
If you have to censor yourself, they can’t help you.
I’m starting to see why the USA rates so poorly in OECD life expectancy.
Oddly enough, evil group COBRA complies with COBRA.
Evil‽ I though Cobra were the good guys? Aren’t they meant to echo the actions of the American Patriots, with the Joes standing in for the Redcoats?
COBRA has GODOT aaaaall over it, too.