Stimulus Plan Leaves Laid-Off Workers Awaiting a Health Insurance Bailout

April 7, 2009

Laid off last fall and left to find $1,400 a month for continued family health coverage, I felt as if I’d struck pay dirt when I learned in February that Congress had decided to spend billions helping millions of Americans like me retain our insurance. The promise of a 65 percent subsidy on the premium looked like my own piece of bailout heaven. (Washington Post)