Know Your Rights Political Coping with Lupus Alternative Medicine

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Know Your Rights

• Health Insurance
• Employment Rights under the ADA

Health Insurance

• COBRA
  Employers with 20 or more employees must offer them the option of continuing to be covered, at the employees expense, by the company's group health insurance plan for a specific period after employment ends. See Summary of COBRA Requirements
  
  
• The Family and Medical Leave Act
  This federal law allows an employee to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year to recover from serious illness. The employer must allow the worker to return to the same or similar position he or she held before the illness. See The Family and Medical Leave Act: for the weaknesses of the Act.
  
  
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
  The bill prohibits employers offering health coverage and health insurers from limiting or denying coverage to individuals covered under a group health plan for more than 12 months for a medical condition that was diagnosed or treated during the previous 6 months. AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #275, July 18, 1997

• Consumer: Travel, Insurance, Legal Malpractice and More
• Social Security Administration
• Center for Patient Advocacy
• Health Administration Responsibility Project

• How I Fought My HMO and Won - Without a Lawyer
• Managed Care: Dangers for Persons With Disabilities
• How Can Consumers Tell If A Health Policy or Plan is Good?
• What Consumers Need to Know

• Health insurance and workplace rights The Body: Financial and Legal Issues
  
• How to protect your insurance policy HIV/AIDS Legal and Insurance Issues
  
• Questions about getting and keeping insurance HIV and Insurance: Some questions and answers
  
• Keep insurance when you leave your job AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #275, July 18, 1997
  

Employment Rights under the ADA

• Your Rights in the Workplace (1994)
• Disability Discrimination: FAQ (at Employment-Workplace Rights)
• Barry Taylor, Esq.: Can They Ask Me That?
• Mid-Atlantic ADA: questions and answers (1992)
• Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
• The ADA: Your Employment Rights as an Individual With a Disability

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Political

• Legislation
• Political Action

Legislation and Issues

• Government Advocacy (the Lupus Bill)
• The Lupus Bill
• Dark Vehicle Windows Bill
• Genetic Information and the Workplace
• Politics of Health Care
• Consumer Protection Legislation

Political Action

• Grassroots Lobbying Manual
• Congressional Quarterly's VoteWatch
• THE DISABILITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
  

Links to Other Lupus Sites

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