Major health insurers to stop offering new child-only policies
21st September 2010
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.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.
“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.”
Insurance companies exist, you see, so that nobody ever has to pay for his or her own health care. Funny how the insurance companies just obstinately refuse to recognize this simple fact.