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...people with health insurance through their employers. And if you fail to come up with the money, you may lose your house or have your wages attached. All that is certain is that you don't want to be on the losing end of Congress's lottery. Ask Jim Wester of Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Life Become Too Much A Game Of Chance? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Wester runs his own one-man welding business. His income is solidly middle class. And he has a health-insurance policy--albeit one with a $3,000 deductible--to cover himself, his wife Richelle and a teenage daughter. Wester thought the couple's newborn son Hunter would automatically be covered. He thought wrong. That was his first lottery loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Life Become Too Much A Game Of Chance? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

When 9-month-old Hunter spent 18 days in Sunrise Hospital, where he was treated for a brain aneurysm, the Westers received a bill for $135,000. Bills from other doctors and health-care providers brought the total to $180,000. Wester says he began making payments on the hospital bill, but they weren't enough. Sunrise turned the bill over to a collection agency and then sued. A judge knocked the total bill down to $98,000, which included court costs and attorney fees. An attorney suggested bankruptcy, but then a friend of a friend who worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Your Life Become Too Much A Game Of Chance? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

Thanks for picking up an idea from MAD magazine. That cover photo of W. lacks only the "What, me worry?" line. EARL M. WESTER Wyomissing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 22, 2001 | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Coffey24-14-1 (106), Mann 13-6-1 (69), TOTAL 37-20-2.Receiving: Har--Wilske 6-53, Heller 3-52,Eitzmann 2-38, Menick 2-22, Patterson 1-32,Stakich 1-9, TOTAL 15-206; Dar--Ferrara 6-63,Karczewski 3-35, Young 3-16, Bunn 3-19, Poncy2-17, Wester 1-20, Belhomme 1-3, White 1-2, TOTAL20-175.Interceptions: Har--Natale, Yankoff.FG Missed: None.Time of Possession: Har--29:20, Dar--30:40.Attendance...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Football Mugs Dartmouth, 20-7 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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