This updates reports posted here on March 3, 2009 and on January 15, 2009.
Options should be considered before Employer-based Health Insurance Coverage is lost due to layoff, as well as afterward. Alternatives are thoroughly and helpfully discussed by Walecia Konrad in "Patient Money/Hanging On to Health Coverage, if the Job Goes Away" p.B6, col. 1 (New York Times Nat'l Ed., Saturday, March 7, 2009).
In addition to the sources and resources to which clients in need can be referred, listed in previous posts, more helpful resources have recently been published in many newspapers. Good sources of information about COBRA and obtaining and maintaining Health Insurance Coverage after a layoff, including many potentially helpful web sites, are discussed by Michelle Singletary in "Helping Laid-Off Workers Pay for Health Insurance" (Washington Post.com, Thursday, March 5, 2009), and by Sandra Block in "Stimulus to Help With COBRA Costs" p. 3B, col. 1 (USA Today, Tuesday, March 2, 2009).
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