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Tips for getting care after losing health insurance.
UNC expert offers five tips for getting health care after losing your health insurance
As a result of the current economic slowdown, many people have lost their jobs -- and their health insurance. Dr. Adam Goldstein explains how people in that situation can continue getting the health care they need.
Adam Goldstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Monday, Dec. 15, 2008
Hear Dr. Adam Goldstein discuss these tips at:
http://interweb.unch.unc.edu/media/goldstein.mp3
It’s a sad fact of life in our current economic environment. Almost every day, it seems, we see stories in the news about hundreds of people losing their jobs as employers resort to layoffs, companies downsize, businesses go out of business.
“Losing your job is scary enough all by itself,” said Dr. Adam Goldstein, a professor of family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. “But for some people, such as those who have chronic health problems that require both medications and regular visits to the doctor, that fear becomes magnified by the loss of health insurance that often goes hand in hand with the loss of one’s job.”
Fortunately, if you find yourself in this situation there are several things you can do:
For full release go to:
http://unchealthcare.org/site/newsroom/news/2008/December/goldsteintips