Quote Originally Posted by NbyNW View Post
You may be able to purchase gap insurance or short term insurance that is more affordable than COBRA.

In the past year, DH was laid off and I also had to leave an impossible situation. We found it more affordable to purchase insurance on our own (we shopped at www.ehealthinsurance.com) than to sign up with COBRA -- we had been unhappy with DH's employee insurance anyway, as they had spent the previous two years terminating their contracts with many of our local health care providers.

Good luck!
I found a good and relatively reasonable plan through that same website. It is many hundreds of dollars less than the COBRA plan that I was offered.