It is serious business in these lockout streets.
When the lockout happens the NFL Players will still have health coverage via COBRA. What they don’t tell you is that COBRA is crazy expensive, so instead of dealing with that, one NFL player decided not to take any chances.
ProFootBallTalk with the details:
As midnight approaches on the expiration of the labor deal and, in turn, evaporation of health insurance coverage paid by the team, weird things are happening.
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that the wife of an NFL player had labor induced last week, so that the costs relating to the birth of the baby would be covered.
The player will probably still have to pay for the COBRA coverage (shockingly medical expenses continue after birth), but I guess he was like the NFL was going to pay for the birth.
The more important point maybe the players are in a little bit of a panic mode. If you got 20 million in the bank, you are probably not worried about a lockout, but if you are making the league minimum, but has been balling like you a franchise player, you are nervous right now.
All this talk of COBRA has me thinking about.