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Obamacare For Pregnant Women: Health And Human Services Denies Request For Special Open Enrollment For The Newly Pregnant

“Pregnancy does not qualify as ‘an exceptional circumstance’ that grants women a special open enrollment period to sign up for health insurance through Obamacare exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services says, denying a request from Democratic senators to create such a period for newly pregnant women. Senators had written a letter to Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell in March asking her to create a special enrollment period.” Read more at International Business Times.