Health and Fitness

Divorce Costs Thousands of Women Health Insurance Coverage Every Year

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ANN ARBOR–(ENEWSPF)–November 13, 2012. About 115,000 women lose their private health insurance every year in the wake of divorce, according to a University of Michigan study.

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And this loss is not temporary: women’s overall rates of health insurance coverage remain depressed for more than two years after divorce.

“Given that approximately one million divorces occur each year in the U.S., and that many women get health coverage through their husbands, the impact is quite substantial,”…

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