(Source: Sherrod Brown) Thursday, October 29, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – In advance of the Health Insurance Marketplace’s open enrollment period starting next week, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and 22 of his Senate colleagues today introduced legislation that would increase access to prenatal and maternity care. Brown’s bill, the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act (Healthy MOM Act) would create a special enrollment period (SEP) so pregnant individuals can enroll in or change their healthcare plans once they become pregnant. “Women don’t time their pregnancies around arbitrary insurance open-enrollment periods,” Brown said. “These deadlines should not keep mothers-to-be from getting...
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