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McNulty is the employee benefits practice leader for USI in Tampa. Before joining USI, he started and ran an insurance brokerage and consulting firm in St. Petersburg. He is a leader in the employee benefit industry with 20 years of experience which includes self-funded consulting delivered to clients in the mid to large market. He served as a board member for the Tampa Lighthouse for the Blind from 2001 to 2009 and the Bayfront Health Foundation from 2006 to 2008. Unaeze received his medical degree from the University of Nigeria in 1988. He trained at New York Medical College, Our Lady of Mercy Center, Bronx, N.Y., and is board certified in internal medicine. On staff at St. Anthony’s Hospital since 2000, he served three two-year terms on the Medical Executive Committee at St. Anthony’s Hospital. Unaeze currently works as a hospitalist at St. Anthony’s Hospital along with private internal medicine with Professional Healthcare of Pinellas Inc. Rouson is a native of St. Petersburg who has served as chairwoman of the Pinellas County Housing Authority Board, and served on the Board of Trustees for Florida A&M University. In the arts community she serves on the executive board of the Stuart Society of the St Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts. She also serves on the board of the Cathedral School of St. Jude and the National Council of Negro Women St. Petersburg Metropolitan Section. Rouson’s career spans from nonprofit organizations, such as the American Red Cross to corporations including Macy’s, IBM, Ceridian Benefits Services and Bayfront Medical Center. Masi serves as the corporate director of warehouse and distribution for Bright House Networks. He joined Bright House in 1981 and is past chairman of the Pinellas County Utility Group. Masi has served on the Pinellas County Permit Standards Committee; Florida Joint Use Committee; Tropicana Field Committee; and the Board of Trustees for the Pinellas County Public Works Academy. He also has served as past chairman for the Common Ground Alliance; as two-term president for the Northwest Little League; and Committee Chairman for Boy Scout Troop 368.

Many Jobless Don't Qualify for Cobra | weareallmukmuks.com

The government is expanding a massive safety net to help the unemployed buy health insurance, but millions of people can’t access the aid because of the way the program was designed.

As a cornerstone of the economic stimulus plan, the administration of President Barack Obama allocated $25 billion to pay 65% of health-insurance premiums for workers laid off this year. Earlier this month, Congress extended the program for people laid off through February 2010 and expanded the aid to 15 months from nine.

But the program is eluding many people in need. That is because it is tied to the narrow parameters of Cobra, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, which President Ronald Reagan signed into law to help people cope during layoffs.

Cobra requires companies with more than 20 employees that already offer group health insurance to continue the insurance for former employees for up to 18 months. But insurance costs under Cobra have gotten so expensive that many people can’t afford even their unsubsidized 35% portion. Meanwhile, millions of workers don’t qualify for Cobra in the first place, because the law doesn’t cover the self-employed or those working for companies that abruptly shut down or are too small, or those who didn’t offer health insurance to begin with. The subsidy also is off-limits to individuals who have been unemployed the longest; only those laid off since October 2008 are eligible.

Despite the gaps, the administration says the program is helping. “This is a vast improvement over what was in place before when there were no subsidies at all,” says Jason Furman, deputy assistant to President Obama for economic policy. “But this is not the president’s long-term health reform — this is a short-term response to a major economic crisis.”

The Cobra subsidy is part of the nation’s uneven unemployment safety net. Like unemployment checks, retraining and other benefits, which vary wildly depending on factors such as geography, the Cobra subsidy has created a lopsided system of haves and have-nots.

When Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp. in Ocala, Fla., filed for bankruptcy protection in August, about 2,000 former workers couldn’t get U.S. help buying health insurance because the company shut down the health plan.

“Why should I be left out of this government safety net just because I worked for a company that closed?” asks Susan Pascuma, a former insurance coordinator at Taylor Bean who now is without insurance.

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