Obama Care & Maternity Coverage?

Don't get too excited about that - you can bet that EVERYONE'S health insurance will go up about $300 a month, for those mandated maternity costs - maybe more, since preexisting pregnancies will also have to be covered. That will be, $300 PER PERSON. Even for your baby, after baby is born. So, your family will be paying an extra $900 a month for insurance, to subsidize women who get "automatic" maternity benefits. Yehaw.

Additionally, insurance companies who flat out don't want to take on that risk, will do what they're doing now - they'll flat out stop selling insurance policies for individuals, or for women.

I promise, no one is as stupid as Congress thinks they are - not even insurance companies. They CANNOT sell the product at a cost lower than the claims will be, and stay in business. So far, the result of Obamacare has been children being unable to buy individual policies any more, and maternity benefits being unavailable in most states, and premiums up about 30% in cost.

Expect more of the same - drastically increased costs, and fewer coverage options. Cancel your policy now . . . and odds are pretty good, you won't be able to find insurance next year, even at a 50% increase in rate.

Yes, you should wait until later this year and buy a new policy with maternity coverage under Obamacare from the insurance exchange in your state. You get a generous tax credit with your refund.

Not sure how that's going to play out. All I know is most companies dropped maternity coverage KNOWING that they were going to have to take everyone next year. I'm assuming maternity coverage will not be a guaranteed benefit, but I'm also not willing to bet money on it either way. There are lots of unknowns...

Don't buy health insurance from a for profit corporation. Stay not pregnant until some decent health coverage comes into effect then join it.

Close, but get the new one first, and then cancel your current one. Don't cancel your current one first, and take the chance of having no insurance or the chance of not being able to get a new one immediately.