Navigating Healthcare After Divorce: What I Wish I Had Known-Intro to my E-Book
After nearly 40 years of marriage, my ex left without warning. And in the middle of everything that followed, the grief, the logistics, the complete restructuring of my entire life, I had to figure out something I had never had to think about before. Healthcare. For nearly four decades I had been covered under my ex-husband’s insurance through his job. I never had to think about premiums, deductibles, networks, or enrollment windows. I just handed over a card and that was that. Suddenly that card was gone and I was standing in the middle of a system I did not understand with no roadmap and no one to guide me. I will be honest. I made mistakes. I panicked. I went without care I needed because I was afraid of costs I did not understand. I sat in doctor’s offices nodding along to terminology I had never heard before, like facility fees and Good Faith Estimates, feeling completely lost and completely alone. But here is what I have learned over the years of trial, error, and a whole l...
