Health insurance problems in Oregon
Does this bother anyone else, or is it just me?
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."
It wouldn't kill the service to set up to accept cash payments, but at some point we have to ask if we are dealing with any form of competence at all here.
And anybody in the goddam country can afford six bucks a month.