I’m happy for everyone else but there’s no relief for me. The economy starting souring before 9/1/2008. My company cut back and my company involuntary terminated me in June 2008 so I am not eligible. I was required to pay the full 102% of the premium and I had a high deductable plan.

At 900+/month for the insurance and the 5K high deductable I wound up paying 17,000+/year just to maintain coverage lest any of my kids, my spouse or myself get seriously sick.

Where’s my benefit? So the insurance companies make a mint and I go deeper and deeper into debt!!

So now I owe credit card companies with their insane interest rates and now the monthly payments are to a point that I can’t afford to pay them!

Why September 1, 2008?!

I had no choice but to go on COBRA do due this to current health conditions. Two months short of eligibility and I’m screwed!

I was able to transition to another group plan recently as the only qualidying event that I could get into this plan with was my birthday or the termination of COBRA. 18 months to get away from almost 1000+ without losing continuous coverage but now I”m still paying almost the same amount.

Where’s my stimulus! Why is 9/1 considered the start of this! The economy was starting to sour long before 9/1/08. Being left behind/out due to a timing issue is unsettling to me.

How about Congress putting in a law to benefit those who hit even before 9/1/2008. I’m 100% excluded right now so anything would help! My family could have used that 600-700 a month to keep regular food on the table and keep other things in check.

Where’s my stimulus?!

If congress wanted to truly be fair then update the plan to have a graduated scale that builds up to the 9/1/2008 65% subsidy. I don’t know the indicaters used for the subsidy start date but 60 days has cost my family thousands we didn’t have. More importantly, it’s cost them to learn that it’s all or nothing when it comes to help of this type.

I hold no ill feeling to those who are eligible but being on the outside looking in to this “gift” and to miss out on the benefit by what I consider a “hair” has been unsettling.

Who knows what the answer can be. Currently it’s “Too Bad!” but I know my family, my kids would enjoy it if I could take that 600-700+ in subsidie’s I couldn’t receive, that I had to borrow a month and send it to the damn CC companies that we are now indebted to. It may even save them the embarassement of having bankruptcy as a childhood experience.

My problems are my own and my lack of being able to secure a job is my problem but to miss this by a hair wihout having so much as a dime or a crumb is just unnerving on a daily basis!