Trapped (toon)

[Courtesy Flush]

[XanaDUer]

1. Sad but true

the complainers ofter defend the status quo the most. At my last (horrific) job in a(n) (awful, right-wing) hospital, the grumblers and whiners about the job were the ones constantly going off about freedom, and Obama's a Muslim, etc. They did me a favor by laying me off and I got a better job, but still...

PS- edited to add, this sounds like the same old shit conservatives were giving against Medicare forty-plus years ago...

[Nye Bevan]

2. I'm not sure that the premise of this cartoon is accurate.

If you have group health insurance with your employer, under HIPAA if you get a new job with group health insurance they are required to cover you and your family immediately, without regard to pre-existing conditions.

The big problem is if you lose your job and exhaust COBRA, which is what Obama's reform (which I support) addresses.

[XanaDUer]

3. Or after the first full 30 days

from when you start the job. I had to shell out an extra month of COBRA due to that.

[Scuba]

6. But in the cartoon, she wants to start her own business....

...the "portability" part of HIPAA is a tenuous threat for families and singles alike.

[Nye Bevan]

7. Agreed. Switching from one employer to another is OK, but starting your own business is a problem.

Which is also addressed by Obama's reforms.

[FourScore]

4. Just keep educating people. Eventually they'll come around! n/t

[patrice]

5. On a related subject: I believe I heard a note of hostility over the availability of credit, recentl

y, at my representative's town hall.

[XanaDUer]

8. They were hostile to a Republican pol

about the lack of available credit? Good!

[patrice]

9. The crowd growled. There was also someone there wanting better oil accounting, domestic : foreign. n

[XanaDUer]

11. Good.

Hopefully, the tide is turning.

[Left coast liberal]

10. So true it hurts.