Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag
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Help Us Help Molly Holzschlag
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#2For those wondering if this is legit, Molly herself has confirmed it on Twitter https://twitter.com/mollydotcom/status/398090908496691200
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#3Having met Molly at a CSS WG meeting last year, she's an amazingly enthusiastic (maybe too enthusiastic) contributor to the W3C.
The fairy godmother comment is pretty spot on - she's plays the part of the consensus builder and conscience to various disparate technical parties.
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#4Just out of curiosity, is this the kind of thing the Affordable Care Act would be expected to help?
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#5(As a brit) I don't understand this:
"Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA."
So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health insurance doesn't help you when you are sick, when does it help you?
Thank god (and the Labour party) for the NHS.
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#6(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…
We don't understand it, either.
The fund is growing--good to see that!
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#7Just out of curiosity, is this the kind of thing the Affordable Care Act would be expected to help?
It's one of the things disability benefits and disability insurance are supposed to help.
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#8Just out of curiosity, is this the kind of thing the Affordable Care Act would be expected to help?
Not in any huge way that I see.
She was on employer provided insurance, which won't undergo any huge changes that would change her situation. After the FMLA time period (where her employer could keep her on their insurance without her paying extra), she's now on COBRA which is basically an additional period where you can pay the full cost of your employer's plan to the insurance company directly, and extend your coverage by 18-36 months.
The only difference under the ACA is that if she became unemployed during the annual open enrollment window, then she would be able to immediately jump to individual insurance rather than using COBRA. Depending on her income level, she might be eligible for a subsidy if she made the change. So depending on income, her state's insurance market, and when she gets sick she might be able to get insurance for less than $1000/mo she's paying in COBRA premiums.
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#9(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…
The standard in the US is that this is a different type of insurance (disability insurance) and it's often sold in parallel with life insurance.
Disability benefits can also (often) become available in this situation, meaning that this is one of the only situations in which the fed will actually give you money (most other benefits are paid out by the state).
Not saying that this is a good situation, just clearing up some misconceptions.
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#10(As a brit) I don't understand this: "Molly was employed at the small NPO Knowbility as the Open Web Evangelist. Knowbility was able to put her on Family and Medical Leave which allowed Molly to retain her health insurance coverage. The FMLA time period has ended and the only coverage available now is through COBRA." So she had health insurance, but now that she's ill and has to stop work, it is stopping? If health i…
I don't know which Labour party you're talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Health_...