Keeping Health Insurance when you change jobs.
HIPPA protects you from losing your health insurance when you change jobs. Before this act, employers could refuse to cover new hires because they had pre-existing health conditions that would increase their group rates. This made it difficult for people to change jobs because they feared the inability of finding comparable health insurance. Now, however, employers cannot refuse to extend the same coverage to you just because you or a family member already has a health condition.