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Information about all aspects of finances affected by a serious health condition. Includes income sources such as work, investments, and private and government disability programs, and expenses such as medical bills, and how to deal with financial problems.
Information about all aspects of health care from choosing a doctor and treatment, staying safe in a hospital, to end of life care. Includes how to obtain, choose and maximize health insurance policies.
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This is not a time to think about changing jobs. However, when things settle down, keep in mind that you are not locked in to your current job because of a health history.

Thanks to a combination of laws, job lock because of health condition is a thing of the past.

Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar laws, a new employer cannot ask about your health history. If you show up looking unable to do the job, a prospective employer can ask whether you can physically and/or mentally do the job, but not what happened to you. (To learn more, including how to handle interviews, see the articles in To Learn More.)

Until the provisions of the Affordable Care Act (often referred to as Obamacare) become effective on January 1, 2014, the amount of time you had creditable health insurance is counted against any exclusionary period that a new employer may have in its health insurance thanks to a federal law known as HIPAA. The only catch is that the law only applies if you are not without health insurance for 62 days or more. (Insurance thanks to COBRA counts as creditable health insurance.)

There may be plenty of other reasons not to change jobs, but a health history is no longer one of them.