Leaving Stanford

If you are interested in options outside of Cobra, consider these:

Health Insurance Marketplace: If you don’t have coverage through a job, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or another source, the Marketplace helps you find and enroll in a plan that fits your budget and meets your needs.

Covered California: Covered California makes it simple and more affordable for millions of Californians to get quality health insurance, including Medi-Cal, that cannot be canceled or denied because of a pre-existing medical condition or if someone gets sick.

Kaiser individual plans: Use this link to find affordable Kaiser individual health insurance plans that meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

Blue Shield individual plans: Blue Shield of California provides access to affordable, high-quality benefits and insurances packages to California residents.

Medicare coverage: Medicare is the federal health insurance program for people who are 65 or older, certain younger people with disabilities, and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).