In response, lawmakers are trying to pass a Nebraska health insurance bill that would restore prenatal coverage to more than 1,000 pregnant women in the state. The bill would create the children's health insurance program to cover unborn children and include children of illegal immigrants.
The bill would create a new program that would work like the Nebraska Kids Connection program that provides children in low income families with health coverage.
Among the 5800 women who were sent letters of only 1,000 are left without prenatal coverage through other Medicaid programs. These women include pregnant adolescents whose parents are not eligible for Medicaid and illegal immigrants.
In addition, the bill specifies that the unborn have no immigration status and can not be treated as illegal immigrants.
All in all, it seems that this could be an effective solution to provide more pregnant women with prenatal health coverage.
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