My company just recently reduced my hours at work for me and for about 10 other employees. We no longer meet the minimum number of hours per week to receive health care.

We are all looking into our alternatives to health insurance cobra to see if there may be a better deal. Is there an internet company that can provide us insurance as a small group working for the same company? We are still on with the job but their current health plan does not stipulate if there is a group of us that can be covered if we work lesser hours.

I have only been offered health insurance cobra one time in my life and from what I can remember it was far too expensive for me to afford it. If I remember correctly I did not receive as much coverage as I did when I was working and the price was about 3 times the amount.

Has that changed at all in recent years? Maybe when I first was offered Cobra is was closer to when it first was made available to the public? I just could not fathom how an unemployed person could afford such an expensive health care.