Stimulus Bill to Cover 65 Percent of COBRA Costs for 9 Months

The cobra 65% Discount has allowed my husband and I to have health care coverage, but that has expired as of December 1,2009.

I am aware that Senator Casey ( PA ) has a Bill to Extend the Cobra Discount for the unemployed.

We are both unemployed and we urge you to please support this bill and to pass it immediatly.

If there is anything we as United

States Citizens can do to speed this process up, please call or email and let us know what to do. We are in a desperate situation as I am sure millions of others are.

Even at $578.00 we have had to borrow money from our children to pay for the Cobra@ $578.00 a month. Our Children have 2 Autistic children and Medical

Coverage does not cover their special needs such as Speech Therapy etc.- We appreciate the help you Mr President have given to us in the past with 65% Discount.WE are now asking you to please immediatly continue this.

Please let the House and Senate know how important this is and to take very quick action

It is urgent that your bill get passed before the end of December 2009.(see below)

I know we are not alone in this, my husband and I have many medical conditions, from heart (I have had a heart attack, my husband has atrial fibrillation), we are both

Diabetic, high blood pressure, Asthma, & Colitis/ Chron"s Disease to name a few.

Our Premiums on the COBRA DISCOUNT were $578.00 per month and they are now over $1700.00 per month as of December 1, 2009.

Without Cobra at a rare we can possibly pay, our

Retail medications alone, using s discount card would run at least $4,000.00 per month with no Health

Care.

Our medications with the Cobra Insurance ( using generics wherever we could) ran us approximately almost $500.00 per month.

Without our Cobra and with a Drug Store Discount card they will run us about $4,000.00 per month. Then we would have to add in over $1700.00 in Cobra Premiums.

There is no way for us to do this. We are looking for jobs and hopefully with benefits, but have not had any success.

We are in our early 60's and not eligible for Medicare or Medicaid and have no savings.

I know that we as well as millions of others greatly need help for this Cobra Discount to be extended immediately. If our premiums are not paid before the end of the month (Dec31,2009) Cobra will just drop everyone and once dropped you cannot get it back and due to all the pre-existing conditions , no one will cover us.

I pray for us as well as everyone else in this situation, that our Government will be there and reinstate the 65% Discount or many of us may not make it at all without the Medications and medical care.

Thank you again for your help.

Nancy of FL 1:03PM December 07, 2009