{"id":129,"date":"2004-08-02T15:45:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2004-08-02T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-02T21:45:25","slug":"most-individual-health-policies-lack-pregnancy-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/02\/most-individual-health-policies-lack-pregnancy-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Most individual health policies lack pregnancy coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Gerencher in <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.marketwatch.com\/\">CBS MarketWatch<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>When it comes to covering the medical costs of bringing a new human being into the world, women are largely on their own in the individual health-insurance market.<\/p>\n<p>Many individual policies either don&#8217;t cover deliveries or offer coverage in the form of a rider, which costs extra and may require women to wait &#8212; sometimes for several years &#8212; before they qualify to have a covered pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The riders are sort of silly,&#8221; said Karen Pollitz, senior health-policy researcher at Georgetown University Health Policy Institute. &#8220;They&#8217;re expensive. You basically need to pay the premium on it for three years before it will cover anything.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7BE294D119-21A5-4B6E-8C4C-C4AC13BBB1C3%7D&amp;siteid=google&amp;dist=google\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Gerencher in CBS MarketWatch reports: When it comes to covering the medical costs of bringing a new human being into the world, women are largely on their own in the individual health-insurance market.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}