There are times when financial or medical hardships make it impossible for us to get insurance coverage. There are also times when unforeseen disasters wreak more havoc than we, or our insurers, are able to pay. It is during these times that state and federal funds can step in and make all the difference.

Thanks to the new healthcare reform bill, high-risk health insurance pools will be opening up state by state. Because people with pre-existing health conditions are riskier to insure (because they already have health issues and are guaranteed to cost the health insurance company money) many of them do not have health insurance policies.