This is a surprising and welcome development. If you are pregnant and qualify for German public health insurance/gesetzliche Krankenversicherung, you have never had a problem with the maternity costs - itŽs covered.
A major problem has always been for pregnant women who cannot get into public insurance for whatever legal reason and who must apply for private health insurance.
They have usually been turned down straight away or have been asked to pay a high surcharge or have been refused cover if they are already more than a few weeks pregnant.
As a result of the new Unisex Laws for insurance since the beginning of this year, it seems change is afoot. There are now a couple of German private insurers who no longer even ask the question " are you pregnant?" in their application form and will insure you even if you are 6 or 7 or 8 monthsŽ pregnant at NO extra charge.
This is hopefully good news for some of you.