Switch Health Insurance After Life Event?

Here's the scenario:
  • Current job gives me health insurance. I've already reached deductible w/ current health insurance
  • Having a baby in November (yay!). Since I've already met deductible, we will pay only the coinsurance (that's 20% of approximately 10k, so we expect to pay about $2000)
  • Starting a new job next week with new health insurance. Because I have not met the deductible, the baby will cost me at least $6000! (deductible is 6k, total out-of-pocket-max is 8k)

The question that I have is can I switch to COBRA until the baby is born and then switch to
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