re: #844 Cato the Elder
Well I can’t answer for Cattt, but when my cancer was discovered I had no insurance - just strarting out in my own business (cause I was a white heterosexual Male over the age of 55 and was deemed TOO EXPENSIVE to keep by my company). And MY Cobra had run out. My drug “X” cost me more than I could afford (it was a generic) and so I went without - not having any possible means to pay for it, until I landed a part time gig which gave me access to health insurance. I’ll never know how much my body paid in terms of the cancer damage because of that fact, but I do know that when I just COULD NOT WORK ANYMORE, I took that COBRA until I lucked out with SSDI and was eligible for Medicare - which, as I stated above, is only slightly less than COBRA and is nearly 4 times more expensive than was my private plan pre-Cobra.