World’s Smallest Violin
By PoliPundit ~ October 31st, 2003 @ 2:32 am
“Roughly 40,000 poor people have been dropped from the Oregon Health Plan this year because of their failure to make monthly premium payments, some as low as $6 a month,” the Associated Press reports from Eugene.
“Advocates for the poor” are outraged. “It’s an enormous barrier,” said Ellen Pinney, director of the Oregon Health Action Committee. “Let alone the $6, there is the whole issue of writing a check or getting a money order, putting it in an envelope with a stamp and putting it in the mail to this place in Portland that must receive it by the due date.”
(Link via James Taranto’s priceless Best of the Web)
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November 25th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
It is terrible to see anyone lose there insurance. Maybe once we get a healthcare overhaul we can do something about this.