A newsletter from The Wall Street Journal brought this item to NewMexiKen’s attention.
According to a report in the Seattle Times:
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…Advocates for the poor say the premiums are too expensive for some people and the government may have overestimated the ability of people to mail a check.
“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.”
Now NewMexiKen truly hates to agree with the Journal on anything — and everyone in this country should have adequate health care as a matter of course — but yapping that people aren’t able to make a payment by mail leaves me non-plussed.