Health Coverage After Job Loss
When Byron Wesson of Dayton, Ohio, lost his job as a manufacturing engineer at Delphi Corp. after the automotive parts supplier outsourced Wesson’s position to a plant in Mexico, he joined 1.3 million people left unemployed last year as a result of layoffs. He also joined 46 million Americans struggling without health insurance. Currently residing in Dallas, his family gets by with a discount drug card from the neighborhood pharmacy, free health clinics, and, if necessary, the county hospital. “In the back of my mind, I know we’re going to have to do something,†says 47-year-old Wesson. “We’re on borrowed time.â€
