``Losing a job often means losing health coverage''
Mr. Pollock said: ``Losing a job often means losing health coverage. Most laid off workers cannot afford COBRA coverage and do not currently qualify for the public health safety net programs. As a result millions of middle class, lower income workers become uninsured. It is critically important that the economic recovery package extend medicaid, eligibility to workers who recently lost their jobs, so that they can continue to get health care coverage.''
Thousands of people in Washington State could lose their Medicaid coverage in the next couple of months.