Until now, health care for pregnant women and new mothers is, unfortunately, is missing, a problem that has tried to address the new health care reform.
Women face problems such as health insurance providers refuse to cover the cost of delivery or charge higher premiums in treating pregnancy as a preexisting condition.
While many reforms will not take effect until 2014, some benefits for pregnant women under the bill for health care is made available new in the fall of this year:
* All health plans will cover some services, including preventive screenings for pregnant women free of charge
* These include folic acid supplementation (which is needed to avoid a series of birth defects in the first part of pregnancy) and counseling for women to quit smoking
* A fund of $ 2.5 million will be made available to facilitate home visiting programs for nurses and other health professionals visiting the adolescents and young women who are pregnant. This will help young mothers cope with the stress of early parenthood. Previous programs such as these, including a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership has managed to get ready for teenage mothers maternity successful
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