NFL players may fall

NFL players may fall - Insurance disease

players In a surprising move, the NFL is considering abandoning and their families' coverage of 'insurance in the spring, if the association can not reach an agreement with the players' union. "While the NFL is facing a situation lockout, dropping coverage could be a major reason that union rushes to reach an agreement.

The spokesman Greg Aiello noted that if NFL players lost their cover they could always use COBRA to continue existing coverage of reports USA Today . Aiello said: "This means that no player or member of the family would be a change in coverage for as much as a single day because of a work stoppage. The union surely knows this and there is no excuse to think otherwise. "

Even the NFL spokesman should note that COBRA is only a temporary situation and unions or players will pick up the tab. Once COBRA coverage runs, players and their families will . buy their own coverage Medicare

Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner said: "It 's been treated in other circumstances and other trading positions, where unions have willing to pay for their COBRA care. C "is the question. They "ll continue to get medical care. It ''s just that the burden of paying for it will not be on the clubs, it would be on individuals or the union. "

The 2011 lockout has become more realistic than the NFL and the players' union continue to struggle to reach an agreement.

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