1.   Higher insurance costs will make it harder to afford coverage, swelling the numbers of uninsured.

2.   An unemployed worker cannot easily afford coverage.

3.   And they said the Republican approach to providing health insurance subsidies to laid-off workers through tax credits would leave many people unable to afford coverage.

4.   About half the states have established programs to provide health insurance to people with medical problems who cannot obtain or afford coverage in the private market.

5.   Adria Firestone, a mezzo-soprano who lives in Jersey City, N.J., said her union health plan got so expensive that she could no longer afford full coverage.

6.   He does not say that this will drive premiums up, further increasing the number of people who cannot afford coverage.

7.   How much coverage can you afford?

8.   Keep dependent ex-spouses on a health insurance plan until that person could afford coverage, got remarried or died.

9.   Rookie Assemblyman Keith Richman, R-Northridge, introduced a bill to create a low-cost health insurance plan so more Californians can afford coverage.