Health/Life Insurance & HIV/AIDS

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If I quit my current job to move to a new state for a new job, will it be possible to have continuous health insurance coverage?
Can my employer terminate my health insurance if I've been on medical disability?
I'm HIV positive, and my wife is dropping me from her health insurance. What options are available to me now?

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General Overview

Insurance Policies Affecting Your HIV Treatment? Take That Complaint to the State (June 3, 2015)
From TheBody.com
Health Insurance Marketplace Plans and People Living With HIV and/or Viral Hepatitis: The Success of the Affordable Care Act Requires Fair Drug Pricing and Access (February 2014)
From Fair Pricing Coalition
Tips on Transitioning From Work to Disability (Winter 2013)
To read PDF, click here.
In Being Alive Newsletter, from Being Alive
What Happens When COBRA Ends (Summer 2012)
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In Being Alive Newsletter, from Being Alive
Maintaining Your Disability in the Internet Age (Spring 2012)
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In Being Alive Newsletter, from Being Alive
FAQs About Insurance (January 4, 2012)
From The Body's "Ask the Experts" Forums
Finding Health Care; Preparing for the Future (February 2011)
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In Project Inform Perspective, from Project Inform
Solving the Puzzle of Insurance & Government Benefits for People With HIV/AIDS (2004)
From AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area
Seventh Circuit Refuses to Apply ADA to Health Insurance Policies (June 3, 1999)
Lambda and ALCC warn ruling undermines ADA protections.
From Lambda Legal
A Snapshot of an Epidemic in Flux: A Survey of Effective Legal Strategies for Survival in Changing Times (February 1998)
A five-part series.
In A Snapshot of an Epidemic in Flux: A Survey of Effective Legal Strategies for Survival in Changing Times, from Paul Hampton Crockett, Esq.

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