Continuing your group health insurance
(Separate Website)
Information on COBRA, a way to extend your private health insurance in some cases before it ends.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Protecting your right to health insurance
(Separate Website)
Know your HIPAA rights.
By: AARP
Life changes require health choices: Know your benefit options
(Separate Website)
This Web site helps you understand your rights and responsibilities when you face life or work events that affect your health care benefits.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
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Spanish / Espaņol
Divorce and Insurance
(Separate Website)
After a divorce, you will still want to make sure that your children have health insurance. Learn how you can keep them covered.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Your employer's bankruptcy: how will it affect your employee benefits?
(Separate Website)
This information sheet focuses on bankruptcy?s effect on group health plans.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
What to do if your health coverage can no longer pay benefits
(Separate Website)
Helpful information if your health insurance company files for bankruptcy or goes out of business.
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Discrimination against race, color, or national origin: what can you do?
(Separate Website)
If you believe that a health care provider is discriminating against you because of your race, color or national origin, this fact sheet provides you with some information about what steps you can take.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
What to do about disability discrimination at a job
(Separate Website)
This guidebook gives information about the ADA employment discrimination administrative charge process. There are case examples and explanations of when, where, and how to file a charge.
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Facts about pregnancy discrimination
(Separate Website)
By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Spanish / Espaņol
What about my privacy?
(Separate Website)
Information on medical records and your right to privacy, including what types of diseases must be reported by law.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Know your rights for substance abuse and mental health care
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet covers your rights when getting substance abuse and mental health treatment, such as confidentiality and the benefits and risks of a certain treatment or procedure.
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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Spanish / Espaņol
How to file a health information privacy complaint
(Separate Website)
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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Spanish / Espaņol
Can I get time off to care for a sick family member?
(Separate Website)
Here is information on a law which lets you to take some time off from work for medical reasons or to care of certain family members.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
Arrested? What happens to your benefits if you go to jail or prison?
(Separate Website)
Here are the rules for Supplemental Security Income (SSI), disability insurance (SSDI), Medicaid, Medicare and veterans benefits for adults with mental or physical disabilities.
By: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Changing jobs? Know about HIPAA
(Separate Website)
HIPAA can give you important health coverage protection if you are changing jobs. Learn how you are protected, especially if you are already being treated for a health condition.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
HIV and your civil rights
(Separate Website)
If you have tested positive for HIV, or if you have AIDS, you have legal rights to protect you from discrimination.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Know your rights as a disabled prisoner
(Separate Website)
This fact sheet explains the applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to prisoners.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
Know your rights to medical care in prison
(Separate Website)
Prison officials are obligated under the Eighth Amendment to provide prisoners with adequate medical and mental health care. This fact sheet highlights the case law that protects your medical rights while you are incarcerated.
By: American Civil Liberties Union
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