Neal Dunn: “I am concerned about an impression that is being created by our opponents in this debate over our Economic Security and…”

“I am concerned about an impression that is being created by our opponents in this debate over our Economic Security and Recovery Act. They talk as if the money they are going to use to offset the COBRA payments is the best way to help people who are out of work and need to be covered by health insurance. In fact, we have had many deep and thoughtful discussions about how we wanted to approach this issue, because certainly we appreciate that people have lost their jobs as a result of the September 11 tragedies, and we want to make sure that they understand that they can count on some Federal help to get them through what we hope will be a very short period of unemployment. In actuality, the block grants that we grant to the States are the grants that are best able to cover everybody's, every displaced worker's, health insurance.”