Health Care and Unemployment

With the economy slowly going downhill, it's affecting people and families more ways than just losing their jobs. The loss of health care is having an impact on families because with losing jobs, more and more people are losing their benefits as well. Over 2 million jobless workers are in a terrible situation; by the end of the year all of them are in danger of losing their jobs. Any unemployed workers all around the country, was given 14 extra weeks of unemployment. Chris Dodd, Senator, is willing to give workers in the state with an unemployment rate greater than 8.5% an additional 6 weeks because their seeing how its affecting the country. In Connecticut though are rate is 8.1% so we will only be allowed to have the 14 weeks, with no extension. It is terrible what is occurring right now throughout the whole country. People are no in serious debt, losing their jobs, homes, cars. It needs to be settle people need to know how to budget because this could be the start of life long problems. It's going to be harder for families with children because when their sick with no health care, that money comes out of parent's pockets and it was a crazy amount of money, just for a doctor's visit. On estimation, over 15,000 people in CT have lost their unemployment already. This recession is affecting union workers, people who have been in business for 25, 30 years who was always guaranteed a job WITH benefits, is now jobless.