Two articles on WHY people with mold illness often have trouble getting re-employed or finding health insurance they can afford.

[Guest guest]

The New York Times has two free articles today that I think will be

interesting to people who are struggling to get work after getting

sick from mold illness.

Few people realize how much illnesses in their past or present effect

their chances of finding new work (or the amount of information that

larger more corporate businesses, in particular, share about the

health status of prospective employees.)

Read these two articles:

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Small Businesses' Premiums Soar After Illness

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/business/05insure.html

" To understand the challenges of insuring the health of the nation's

work force, consider Varney's Book Store.

After a long bout with emphysema an employee at Varney's, a

family-owned business in Manhattan, Kan., died several years ago. But

for Varney's health insurer, her legacy lived on.

The next year, 2002, the insurer raised Varney's premiums by 28

percent — even though most of the other three dozen employees were

significantly younger and healthier than their departed colleague, who

had been in her mid-70's. And Varney's premiums continued to climb.

" It was as if her medical history stayed on the books for an

additional three years, " said Jeff Levin, 46, who runs Varney's with

his younger brother. " How can you justify projecting those costs

forward? "

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Many of the Self-Employed Are Simply on Their Own

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/business/05self.html

" The small businesses that struggle the most with health insurance may

be the smallest of all: those with only one employee. "