(2007) COBRA: Continuation of Employer Group Health Insurance, March 2007. Commerce, Department of
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Abstract
COBRA stands for Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act *COBRA is not insurance; it is the law, since 1985. COBRA allows employees and their dependents to continue employer group health insurance for several months when that insurance would usually end. *Insurance plans under COBRA are private health plans, not plans sold by the government. *The U.S. Departments of Labor and Treasury enforce COBRA.
| Item Type: | Departmental Report |
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| Keywords: | Insurance, Finance, Senior Health, Retirement, Medicare |
| Subjects: | Health and medicine > Healthcare Business and industry > Insurance > Health insurance and health care coverage Business and industry > Insurance |
| ID Code: | 5777 |
| Deposited By: | Margaret Barr |
| Deposited On: | 04 Dec 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Dec 2007 |
| URI: | https://publications.iowa.gov/id/eprint/5777 |