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Your Career: Healthcare options dwindling

Alane Basco, from Poulsbo, Wa., lost her job in 2008 and was on her husband’s insurance plan until he switched to a new employer who didn’t offer health coverage. She was on COBRA through his old company until she couldn’t afford it anymore and is now uninsured.

Advice for those seeking health coverage

For those of you waiting for another COBRA subsidy to come along, the chances don’t look great.

End to COBRA Subsidy Means Higher Health Insurance Bills

Deficit-conscious lawmakers have not renewed a subsidy that helped many jobless Americans afford health benefits.

Silent Night

Images of ivory towers. Of men and women fattened off the wealth of our labor, lackadaisical. They wake from their slumber and address the masses with promises of splendor and ease and then rumble back to their lavish suites uninspired to act with any sense of urgency.

5 reasons health insurance costs are so high

What's behind the out-of-control costs, and how you can keep yours down.

Your Career: Don’t rule out COBRA discount

Many unemployed who think COBRA insurance is too expensive don’t know a discount exists — and some have been given bogus information about whether they’re eligible.

President Obama may have read my story

SC State Representive Anton Gunn said Bessix's story was one that Obama had read at the White House. The president gets a stack of letters to read every night from people seeking help with paying for their health-care costs, Gunn said.

My daughter's tragedy: U.S. health care in a nutshell.

Like millions of Americans, my daughter's boyfriend lost his job this year. His unemployment was a direct result of the banksters' rape of the economy, which is a whole 'nuther story. And of course, with his job went his health insurance.

Unemployed? 4 Ways to Avoid COBRA's Bite

If there were easy alternatives, people would already be taking advantage of them. But in the absence of great options, here are four ways you can avoid getting squeezed by COBRA.