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Jane Tavares, Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer of Gerontology, UMass Boston

When you lose your health insurance, you may also lose your primary doctor – and that hurts your health

Seeing the same doctor on a regular basis is good for your health. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images

When you lose your health insurance or switch to a plan that skimps on preventive care, something critical breaks.

The connection to your primary care provider, usually a doctor, gets severed. You stop getting routine checkups. Warning signs get missed. Medical problems that could have been caught early become emergencies. And because emergencies are both dangerous and expensive, your health gets worse while your medical bills climb.

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