When I started my job, the health insurance provider (Cigna) made a big deal about asking me about continuity of care, meaning whether I was covered by another health plan up until I started with them. I left that job and my COBRA is used up this month. I'll be starting a new job in about 6 weeks, but there will be a month where I'll have no health insurance. Will the new insurance company give me a hard time stating that since I wasn't covered for a while, they can't verify if I have any pre-existing conditions? Should I enroll in an individual health care plan for a month just to avoid this problem. It would cost about $600 and wouldn't do much good practically speaking since there's such high deductables--and where I live there's a couple of really good low fee doctors & hospitals for unemployed people (which I will be for about a month or so).