<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" One of the very first things I did after I realized my marriage was over and my husband was going to be leaving was get a new job with really good health benefits. I ended up taking a $5,000 a year pay cut and extending my commute from 20 minutes to 45, but for me, it was worth it. The other job had benefits I couldn&amp;#039;t afford, and since we were covered under Peter&amp;#039;s plan and he was having an affair with a coworker, I was worried those benefits were in jeopardy. I don&amp;#039;t regret that decision, even though I could really use that extra money. It just goes to show you that in a divorce situation, you have to make a lot of trade-offs. I traded a better salary for medical coverage that wouldn&amp;#039;t bankrupt me on my own. And one breast biopsy, one heart catherterization, one hernia operation, one CAT-scan to the head and one badly broken leg later, I&amp;#039;m really glad I did. All of those things happened to either me or the kids in the time since Peter left. I never would have predicted a bit of it, either. A recent study from the University of Michigan found that following a divorce, the overall rate of women&amp;#039;s health insurance coverage can remain depressed for more than two years. In addition, the study found that approximately 65,000 divorced women will lose all health insurance coverage in the months following the divorce because they no longer qualify as dependents under their husbands&amp;#039; policies or because they have difficulty paying the premiums for other sources of private insurance. I&amp;#039;m lucky in that I work in a corporate job where medical benefits are easily obtained and reasonably priced. Many women aren&amp;#039;t that lucky, and it&amp;#039;s just another burden in the already burdensome process of getting through a divorce. Did you lose your health benefits due to divorce? Have you found it difficult to obtain the coverage that you had when you were married? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.womansday.com/relationships/dating-marriage/a47521/healthcare-is-a-hardship/>