a change in your health coverage are graduating college, or changing your full-time student status, changing jobs, or waiting for group coverage to begin. All of these instances will cause the health that you are currently using to be lost. With rising health costs the loss of health coverage can be devastating for a family. No matter how healthy you are, you never know when you might get sick and need to see the doctor. Or even if you do not get sick, there is always a chance that you might be involved in some sort of accident that causes you to seek medical attention. It is not a good idea to tempt fate by allowing a gap in your health coverage. The best plan is to find some short term coverage that you can use until your full health coverage is available again.

Short term usually covers you anywhere from one month to one year. If you need to have health longer than a year, then most of the time you can change your coverage over from short term to full health coverage. However you will want to check with the company that is offering you the short term to see if it is possible to roll that coverage into another plan if you need coverage for longer than one year. Short term coverage is usually not as comprehensive as normal health coverage is, because it is geared more for accidental coverage than full medical coverage. However this usually means that you will be paying quite a bit less for this coverage than your normal health insurance. You can not afford to take a chance going any length of time without coverage, so paying a little bit of money for short term is well worth it.

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