Posted on 09/22/2010 2:54:52 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Some of the country's most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23.
The companies will continue to cover children who already have child-only policies. They will also accept children with preexisting conditions in new family policies.
Nonetheless, supporters of the new health-care law complain that the change amounts to an end run around one of the most prized consumer protections.
"We're just days away from a new era when insurance companies must stop denying coverage to kids just because they are sick, and now some of the biggest changed their minds," Ethan Rome, executive director of Health Care for America Now, an advocacy group, said in a statement. "[It] is immoral, and to blame their appalling behavior on the new law is patently dishonest."
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Yawn.
I hate that stupid little laugh she has...
There. Fixed it.
No they aren't. I got a letter a month ago telling me to find new coverage for my kid's insurance. I ended up putting him on my company plan at $150 more a month.
“Nonetheless, supporters of the new health-care law complain that the change amounts to an end run around one of the most prized consumer protections.”
How exactly is it “an end run” to be driven out of business by making it impossible to continue to sell your product due to malicious government control?
Will it then be a “major end run” when all insurance companies are eventually forced to quit selling all of their policies and simply go our of business?
The insurance companies don’t want to have charity and medicaid children (up to 26??) dumped onto them.
A co-worker was talking about his "kid" who is 25 who he is demanding be put on his insurance.
I told him there is a term for a 25 year old "kid" - a grown man.
By the time I was 25, I had worked as a civilian engineer, I was an Air Force officer, instructor pilot, and aircraft commander - flying all over the world doing dangerous jobs, and fighting in wars.
I wasn't sleeping in my parents basement until past noon.
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