Louis Brandeis. Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ËbrÃ¦ndaÉªs/; November 13, 1856 â October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), who raised him in a secular home.
Note on Maternity Coverage. Pregnancy is generally considered to be a preexisting condition. Before Obamacare, if you were pregnant when you joined an insurance plan that excluded coverage for preexisting conditions including pregnancy, you would not be covered for maternity costs.
At that time, many health plans considered pregnancy a pre-existing condition. Health plans can no longer deny you coverage if you are pregnant. That's true whether you get insurance through your employer or buy it on your own. What's more, health plans cannot charge you more to have a policy because you are pregnant. An insurance company can't increase your premium based on your sex or health condition. A premium is the amount you pay each month to have insurance.