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Oh... and did you know that BigGator5 is on MEDICAID?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/reactions-to-the-state-of_n_439552.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/28/reactions-to-the-state-of_n_439552.html
Mary Duffy of Redwood City, Calif. volunteered for the Obama campaign because she wanted health care reform. The two-time breast cancer survivor knows what it's like to be denied insurance because of a preexisting condition. Her desire to see the health insurance industry reformed became particularly acute when she lost her job in June of 2008. She continued her employer's coverage through COBRA, but spent all of 2009 applying for jobs knowing that her COBRA coverage would end in December.
The health care bill passed by the House, had it become law, would have saved Duffy by providing an automatic extension of her COBRA benefits -- which were subsidized at a rate of 65 percent by the stimulus bill -- until she becomes eligible for a low-cost plan through an insurance "exchange" in 2013. And both the Senate and the House versions created a high-risk plan for people unable to get private insurance that would have gone into effect immediately starting on Jan. 1, 2010 (though the Senate version would have been slightly less accessible than the House version).
Duffy, who said she gave up on Obama weeks go, told HuffPost she watched the State of the Union while trying to order medicine online from a Canadian pharmacy for the first time since she lost her COBRA coverage. She was not impressed by the speech.
"Overall, it was a nice speech," she said. "Could have been given by anybody. George W Bush could have given that speech."