I left my job recently. Anyone want to guess what my COBRA premiums would have been?
$900 per month.
It exists so Dems can pretend that health insurance isn’t completely dependent on employment
My understanding is you can sign up for it retroactively if something happens. For example I left my job on a Friday and started my new job on Monday, so I didn’t have insurance for the weekend. If something urgent happened, (I think) I could have signed up for COBRA after the fact and had the incident covered.