Nebraska Revised Statutes Chapter 44. Insurance § 44-4221. Purchase pool coverage; eligibility

(i) Who is not eligible for coverage under a group health plan comparable to pool coverage, medicare by reason of age, or medical assistance pursuant to the Medical Assistance Act or section 43-522, or any successor program, and who does not have any other health insurance coverage comparable to pool coverage;

(ii) Who, if such individual was offered the option of continuation coverage under COBRA or under a similar program, both elected such continuation coverage and exhausted such continuation coverage; and

(i) For whom, as of the date the individual seeks pool coverage under this section, the aggregate of the periods of creditable coverage is eighteen or more months and whose most recent prior creditable coverage was under a group health plan, governmental plan, or church plan;

(ii) Who is not eligible for coverage under a group health plan, medicare, or medical assistance pursuant to the Medical Assistance Act or section 43-522, or any successor program, and who does not have any other health insurance coverage;

(iii) With respect to whom the most recent prior creditable coverage was not terminated for factors relating to nonpayment of premiums or fraud; and

(iv) Who, if such individual was offered the option of continuation coverage under COBRA or under a similar program, both elected such continuation coverage and exhausted such continuation coverage; or