Insurance

Modern medicine can perform miracles. However, in health care at least, miracles don't come cheap. Fortunately, there's health insurance. If you don't have health insurance, there are ways to get it in spite of your health condition. (If you do have it, do everything you can to keep it).

Other types of insurance, such as Homeowners Insurance and Automobile Insurance, are essential to protecting what you already own. This is not the time to be hit with a large, uninsured loss, or pay more for insurance than you have to. 

Life insurance can provide protection to your heirs. If you need it, life insurance can even provide a source of cash for you now, while you are still alive. You can still get life insurance.

You are likely entitled to employer paid Workers Compensation insurance benefits if you are injured on the job or get a work related medical condition. Workers Compensation Insurance does not cover illness that is not job related.

There are a whole batch of insurance policies for which you likely receive constant solicitations. The general opinion of financial planners is that most of those policies are not worth the cost.