Affordable Care Act Facts for the Unemployed
Learn what the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) means for unemployed residents of your state, including new options for health insurance coverage.
How Obamacare Affects the Unemployed
by Shae IrvingADVERTISEMENT
If you lose your job, your health insurance coverage may disappear along with it. But you have a couple of ways to make sure you're not without coverage going forward.
The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) allows you to easily compare available policies online. Without a job, you're likely to qualify for subsidies that can reduce your premiums.
You may also be able to keep your employer-provided health care coverage under COBRA, a federal law that lets many ex-employees continue their existing coverage for 18 months. You'll have to pay the full cost of the insurance, however; your former employer will no longer chip in.
After you leave your job, you have 60 days to choose between COBRA coverage (if it's available) and buying individual coverage. For more about the options where you live, select your state below.
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About Shae Irving
Shae Irving has been writing for Legal Consumer since 2013, focusing on health care and family law. She was a senior legal editor and editorial project manager at Nolo, where she worked for twenty-two years. Shae has degrees in rhetoric and law from U.C. Berkeley. She lives in Northern California.
