Steps to Take Before Cobra Subsidy Ends

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Steps to Take Before Cobra Subsidy Ends

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/health/12patient.html?_r=1

By WALECIA KONRAD
Published: December 11, 2009

Roberta Mason, 63, of Turner, Me., is one of millions of people who are finding themselves in a special kind of health insurance bind — or will soon.

This week’s column is for people like them.

Laid off from her job as a supervisor in a shoe factory last January, Ms. Mason was able to keep her health insurance under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, known as Cobra, largely because of a federal subsidy that helped make her payments relatively affordable, at $199 a month.

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