As I was reading the info on Blue Advantage Health Plans, I couldn’t help but be grateful that I have my health insurance to cover my pregnancy check-up expenses. Check-ups can be expensive in Czech Republic if you don’t have a health insurance. Since my pregnancy requires many consultations with the doctor, ultrasound tests and other various tests it’s best to have a health insurance coz we only pay a little, sometimes even nothing when we go for my monthly check-up. Even the hospital expenses when giving birth is wholly covered by the insurance (that’s based on my previous pregnancy).

After researching a bit, I found in one forum where the woman claimed to have paid about 200,000 CZK for cost of childbirth without insurance. In my case, we paid a little extra coz we got a private room after I gave birth and M stayed with me for a night, but it was very minimal. Compared to the 200,00 CZK this woman paid, you can say it really pays off to have a health insurance.