Wednesday, July 1, 2009

I Hate COBRA

It sucks being dependent on health insurance. I take hundreds of dollars worth of drugs to maintain my sanity, see doctors on a monthly basis, and generally use the hell out of my health insurance. Going without is not an option. When I left my job in February, I chose to COBRA my health benefits. I could only afford to insure myself--to insure my husband too would have cost me over 500 dollars a month.

I'm still on COBRA, and now that I'm leaving and going back to my old workplace, I've got to wait another 60 days for insurance. Jeebus, the COBRA is killing me. It wipes out any extra money we might have and generally makes things uncomfortable. I'll just be glad when things finally stabilize, and both hubby and I have health insurance through my employer again.

COBRA is a dirty word around here. Meh.

5 comments:

Kitten said...

COBRA seems to be an appropriate name for this. After all, it's also the name of a tres poisonous snake.

MsDarkstar said...

I don't care what the acronym stands for... they call it COBRA cuz it bites you in the ass!

Paula said...

Cobra is a dirty word at many houses nowdays

Thom said...

I know what you are talking about. I was out for my shoulder and it just disgusted me to have to use that. Things will get better :) Aloha

Rabbit, rabbit

LivingDeadNurse said...

yea cobra isn't that great..