Some Democratic lawmakers are urging the Department of Health and Human Services to allow pregnant women to enroll for health coverage whenever they want under Obamacare.
Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, pregnancy is not a qualifying life event that allows open enrollment.
This week the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. — along with 36 other senators — sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell urging the agency to address a gap in coverage that, they say, could leave women without access to maternity care.
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