Move over, Graeme Frost . Over at Politico, Ben Adler reports on the plight of Jeff Traylor and his girlfriend Amanda Caffall, who may be the new faces of the movement for universal government-run health care. In the year between graduating from college and attending law school, Traylor found himself working as a waiter who didn’t receive health insurance from his employer:
The couple decided to turn lemons into socially conscious lemonade:
Interesting. Surely Googling for health insurance is no more difficult than creating a Facebook group, right? Because no one wants to live with ring worm, here’s some advice for Amanda and Jeff: Google the words “health insurance.” The first web site to pop up will be eHealthInsurance.com. For as little as $38 per month a young man or woman right out of college in Portland can purchase a high deductible plan that requires a $25 copay for visits to the doctor and a $20 copay for prescription drugs. And there are plenty of better plans for less than $100 per month – which is also less than many drifting pre-yuppies spend drinking at bars each month.
