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Economy

Yonnie3

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8. Point?

Reply to Warpy (Reply #7)

Sat Jan 21, 2017, 12:55 AM

Jan 2017

I'm not sure which point you mean. I didn't mean to come across as being critical of you.

I lost my decent paying employment in 2004, in the midst of cancer surgeries and treatments. When the Cobra ran out I found a health insurance policy that cost more than I could earn. I got some help from the Trade Act, but I spent down my severance and savings until Obamacare came along. It was tough. Every time I was close to getting a new job with benefits, I got the cold shoulder. I'm convinced that the employers were somehow checking if they could insure me cheaply. I never got a full time job again.

Now, I have a small pension, medicare and social security but after this election I'm worried.

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Point? Yonnie3 Jan 2017 #8