Health insurance is tricky but most states have a clause in which pre-existing conditions do not apply if there is no break in coverage. Check out the insurance commissioners page on your state government web site. They should have the details. Then simply purchase individual insurance, most times it is less expensive than cobra. As for Obama Care being the savior...don't believe it. There will be problems getting coverage for our specific problems because they are not "cureable". We will fall into that category as the elderly, too expensive with no hope for a cure...never mind.
Hope you can find a great policy.
Dawn
> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:57:39 -0500
> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org
> To: adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com
> Subject: health insurance/careers
>
> Sender: dmmoran@hotmail.com (SBGrace)
> Subject: health insurance/careers
>
> Hi all! I am just curious, what do most of you do for health insurance?
> I ask that in light of my Cobra coverage ending this month. Being I
> have had 3 small bowel obs (full) in 27 mos. it is close to impossible
> for me to get insured for the future. Well until 2014 wherein the
> preexisting conditions portion of Obama-Care will take effect.
>
> Are most of you able to hold down careers?? It seems to be we are in a
> Catch-22 of sorts, that is, we are not eligible for disability, as there
> is no guarantee of having to have more surgeries that cause these
> adhesions. But how in the world to hold down a job if we end up with
> re-occurring surgeries???
>
> UGH!!!!