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Keeping health insurance - (10)
Discrimination - (8)
Privacy - (6)
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  Keeping health insurance
 
   When you are losing your group health insurance
This explains how to find and keep health insurance if you lose your coverage before you are eligible for Medicare.
By: AARP
  
   
   Can you keep your private insurance after it has ended?
Information on COBRA, a way to extend your private health insurance in some cases after it has ended.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
  
   
   Continuation of Health Coverage — COBRA

By: U.S. Department of Labor
  
   
   COBRA: Keeping your group health insurance

By: AARP
  
   
   Changing Jobs? Know about HIPAA
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
  
   
   HIPAA: Protecting your right to health insurance

By: AARP
  
   
   Your rights and protections under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

By: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  
   
   Life changes require health choices: Know your benefit options
This Web site helps you understand your rights and responsibilities when you face life or work events that affect their health care benefits.
By: U.S. Department of Labor

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   What to do if your health coverage can no longer pay benefits

By: U.S. Department of Labor
  
   
   Your rights after a mastectomy
Information about the Women's Health & Cancer Rights Act of 1998
By: U.S. Department of Labor
  
   
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  Discrimination
 
   Race, Color, or National Origin Discrimination: What Can You Do?
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 discrimination getting health care
How to file a discrimination complaint with the Office of Civil Rights.
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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   Your rights under the community service assurance provision of the Hill-Burton Act
This Web site expalins your right to medical treatment at certain facilities without regard to race, color, national origin or creed.
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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   Can you be turned down for benefits or charged a higher premium based on a health factor?

By: U.S. Department of Labor
  
   
   What to do about discrimination against people with disabilities
Your rights under Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  
   
   Filing an ADA employment discrimination charge
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
  
   
   Your rights under Section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act
What to do about discrimination against people with disabilities.
By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  
   
   Facts about pregnancy discrimination

By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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  Privacy
 
   What About My Privacy?
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 privacy rights

By: Health Privacy Project
  
   
   What you can do to protect your privacy

By: Health Privacy Project
  
   
   How to file a health information privacy complaint

By: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

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   Getting your medical records
How to find out who has your medical records, and how to get copies of these records.
By: National Health Law Program - HealthCareCoach.com
  
   
   Know your rights for substance abuse and mental health care
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: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

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  Control over health care decisions
 
   Consumer’s tool kit for health care advance planning
Worksheets to help you make good advance planning health decisions
By: American Bar Association
  
   
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