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Her COBRA Premium Topped $1,400 a Month While Her Roof Leaked — This El Paso Mechanic’s Search for Housing Help
Housing

Her COBRA Premium Topped $1,400 a Month While Her Roof Leaked — This El Paso Mechanic’s Search for Housing Help

Carmen Guzman, 61, faced a $1,387 COBRA bill and a leaking roof on a fixed…

April 8, 2026 • Camille Joséphine Archer
His COBRA Premium Was $22 More Than His Rent — How a 28-Year-Old Sacramento Manager Finally Found Affordable Health Coverage
Medicaid

His COBRA Premium Was $22 More Than His Rent — How a 28-Year-Old Sacramento Manager Finally Found Affordable Health Coverage

A Sacramento restaurant manager paid $847/month for COBRA — more than his rent — before…

April 8, 2026 • Camille Joséphine Archer
Jerome Norwood’s COBRA Bill Was Higher Than His Rent — What He Discovered About Medicaid Eligibility Changed Everything
Housing

Jerome Norwood’s COBRA Bill Was Higher Than His Rent — What He Discovered About Medicaid Eligibility Changed Everything

The Facebook post that led me to Jerome Norwood was almost easy to scroll past.…

April 2, 2026 • Camille Joséphine Archer
COBRA Cost Us More Than Rent After My Husband’s Layoff — The Medicaid Option Nobody Told Us About
Medicaid

COBRA Cost Us More Than Rent After My Husband’s Layoff — The Medicaid Option Nobody Told Us About

The assumption that COBRA is your automatic safety net after losing employer health insurance is…

April 1, 2026 • Camille Joséphine Archer
When COBRA Cost More Than Our Rent, This Omaha Family Had to Rethink Everything About Health Coverage
Medicaid

When COBRA Cost More Than Our Rent, This Omaha Family Had to Rethink Everything About Health Coverage

Most people assume that losing a job is the hard part. The paperwork, the coverage…

April 1, 2026 • Dr. Eliot Soren Vance
He Was Paying More for COBRA Than Rent at 67 — What Tommy Guzman Learned at a Tampa Library Medicare Event
Medicaid

He Was Paying More for COBRA Than Rent at 67 — What Tommy Guzman Learned at a Tampa Library Medicare Event

What would you do if your monthly health insurance bill arrived looking more like a…

March 31, 2026 • Dr. Eliot Soren Vance
COBRA Cost More Than Her Rent in Knoxville — How Brenda Fulton Finally Qualified for TennCare After Two Rejections
Medicaid

COBRA Cost More Than Her Rent in Knoxville — How Brenda Fulton Finally Qualified for TennCare After Two Rejections

The first thing Brenda Fulton told me, before we’d even settled into our chairs at…

March 31, 2026 • Camille Joséphine Archer
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