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.
I said that I would do everything that we could to fix this problem. And today I'm offering an idea that will help do it. People who have plans that pre-date the Affordable Care Act can keep those plans if they haven't changed. That was already in the law, Obama said. Today, we're going to extend that principle both to people whose plans have changed since the law took effect and to people who bought plans since the law took effect.