Congressional Quarterly: A 65 percent subsidy that helped laid-off Americans pay for their COBRA health cover premiums expired March 31, just before the Congressional recess. Now, one of the first orders of calling is voting on ruling that would extend that subsidy. "With 15 million Americans unemployed, some advocates for the jobless say parliament should not only be extending the COBRA alleviation but expanding them " either with more-generous fellowship or by rectification the law to make more people eligible."

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