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one major cause of homelessness among those who are in the 49 year old to 65 year old set of people is medical bankruptcy. Health Care "Reform" with a public option would have helped those people, but it was never part of the Democratic Party's leadership to do much more than enable America's Big Insurers.
The Health Care Reform bill only helps people in that age group IF they work in Corporate America, and have benefits. And who have kids in college, who will benefit from being able to keep their children on their policy till the children reach the age of 26.
My household was wiped clean of everything, including our retirement savings, by a medical bankruptcy in 2005-06. At that time, we had medical insurance! We both hoped that Obama would understand the actual day to day parameters that people in this older age group face.
But his HC"Reform" bill did not address the needs of this population.
JNelson, please call around your local insurance agencies. Tell them you are 59 years old and have diabetes. Ask them how much of a premium you would pay, and see the answer. Then figure out how much you'd need to earn to pay that premium.
But it is not only that the equation -- percentage of net earnings subtracting how HUGE INSURANCE PREMIUM that is a hopeless concern.
Unemployed people in my age group (A huge group of people, BTW) who apply at decent places to work cannot get hired, because what employer in their right mind would hire a 59 year old and face that sky high premium, when they can hire a younger person and pay them less, and pay only 300 a month for the insurance?
If you cannot maintain your health, which is damn hard to do without insurance., and you cannot afford insurance,. and you cannot get a job because of the sky high insurance rates, then what?
To everyone in this group, Obama failed on health care.
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