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Complaint Review: Cobra Insurance Company - Chichgo Illinois
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Cobra Insurance Company
cobra.com Chichgo, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Cobra Insurance Company ripoff Chicago Illinois
we were cover by cobra insurance company through my wifes job ,and she was terminated due to her health,buy her job.yeet for two months cobra continued to tacke payments.when ask about it they said the would refund our payment back in june,we recive nothing from them ,and now we only get run arond.
Samuel
memphis, Tennessee
U.S.A.
Samuel
memphis, Tennessee
U.S.A.
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Kim
Arlington Heights,Illinois,
U.S.A.
COBRA is not a company. It's a plan for employees...
#2Consumer Suggestion
Fri, September 24, 2004
COBRA is not an insurance company. It's an insurance plan created by the government for employees who are fired/terminated etc from a company, which entitles you to continue your health benefits at 102% of the premium that you or your employer was paying before whatever act took place for the employee to leave the company. When your wife left the position, in the mail you would have received a letter stating that this was the case. It's mandated by law. Here is the exact information on COBRA: Congress passed the landmark Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) health benefit provisions in 1986. The law amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Internal Revenue Code and the Public Health Service Act to provide continuation of group health coverage that otherwise would be terminated. COBRA contains provisions giving certain former employees, retirees, spouses and dependent children the right to temporary continuation of health coverage at group rates. This coverage, however, is only available in specific instances. Group health coverage for COBRA participants is usually more expensive than health coverage for active employees, since usually the employer formerly paid a part of the premium. It is ordinarily less expensive, though, than individual health coverage. The law generally covers group health plans maintained by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year. It applies to plans in the private sector and those sponsored by state and local governments.{2} The law does not, however, apply to plans sponsored by the Federal government and certain church- related organizations. Group health plans sponsored by private sector employers generally are welfare benefit plans governed by ERISA and subject to its requirements for reporting and disclosure, fiduciary standards and enforcement. ERISA neither establishes minimum standards or benefit eligibility for welfare plans nor mandates the type or level of benefits offered to plan participants. It does, though, require that these plans have rules outlining how workers become entitled to benefits. Under COBRA, a group health plan ordinarily is defined as a plan that provides medical benefits for the employer's own employees and their dependents through insurance or otherwise (such as a trust, health maintenance organization, self-funded pay-as-you-go basis, reimbursement or combination of these). Medical benefits provided under the terms of the plan and available to COBRA beneficiaries may include: Inpatient and outpatient hospital care Physician care Surgery and other major medical benefits Prescription drugs Any other medical benefits, such as dental and vision care Finally, the website you provide is for COBRA electronics.
