Jun 5 2010
Kaiser Health News staff writer Andrew Villegas writes: "Howard Kornblum has been watching every penny for the past 15 months and it's about to get worse. After being laid off from his job as a consulting director in Michigan, he took advantage in March 2009 of a federal subsidy to help pay for health insurance. With the government picking up 65 percent of the tab, Kornblum's share of the premiums was $236 a month. But starting on June 1, the subsidy expired for the first people who got it, and Kornblum's benefits end tomorrow" (Villegas, 6/3).
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