Health Insurance

Health Insurance Plans

Health insurance helps you pay for medical services and sometimes prescription drugs. Once you purchase insurance coverage, you and your health insurer each agree to pay a part of your medical expenses. These amounts are usually a certain dollar amount or percentage of the expense.
You can have health care coverage through:

• a group coverage plan at your job or your spouse/partner's job
• your parents' insurance plan, if you are under 26 years old
• government programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, or Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
• the Veteran's Administration  or TRICARE for military personnel
• your state, if it provides a health insurance plan
• a plan you purchase on your own directly from a health insurance company or through the Health Insurance Marketplace
• Continuing Employer coverage from your former employer, on a temporary basis under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA)

source: https://www.usa.gov/