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Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women

“The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has denied a request from Democrats to create a special open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act for women when they find out they are pregnant.

In a response to the March letter sent by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee ranking member Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) with 36 signatures, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the agency does not have ‘the legal authority to establish pregnancy as an exceptional circumstance’ to create a special enrollment period.” Read more at The Hill.