Career and Health Care Search
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Been laid off yet? If not, theres a good chance you know someone who has been “let go.” Today its becoming increasingly difficult to find a job in this scarce and slow market, and even more difficult to find decent health care. Some people are trying a different route. This Boston Blobe article focuses on volunteering at a nonprofit while unemployed so one can work on and polish their skills. With the slow job market you should do whatever you can to gain experience, plus it beefs up your resume for future opportunities. Volunteering could also help with a career change.
On the health care side, the Boston Globe posted an article today explaining how companies are paying health care for 27,000 unemployed MA residents, and how if the tax is raised, it will sink the businesses. The state’s Medical Security Program is financed solely by a tax on employers. In 2006, another health care program was started that is not run by the Medical Security Program. (Health Connector System)
It doesn’t make much sense in running two programs that do the same thing. The programs should be merged together and the tax should be kept the same, considering it hasn’t been changed since 1990.
