Thursday, October 14, 2010
Insurers Appear Before Commission
KENTUCKY....
At a hearing before Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark Wednesday, health insurance executives said they would resume selling child-only policies, if Kentucky required their competitors to do the same. Insurers say they cut back sales of child-only plans after a new health care reform law kicked in, requiring insurers to accept children with pre-existing conditions starting September 23rd, changing a law that allowed insurers to refuse coverage to sick children. Insurance companies across the country, including Louisville-based Humana and Anthem, Kentucky's largest health insurer, responded by halting the sale of new child-only plans. Advocates protested the move, saying it amounted to working around one of the reform law's biggest consumer protections.
At a hearing before Kentucky Insurance Commissioner Sharon Clark Wednesday, health insurance executives said they would resume selling child-only policies, if Kentucky required their competitors to do the same. Insurers say they cut back sales of child-only plans after a new health care reform law kicked in, requiring insurers to accept children with pre-existing conditions starting September 23rd, changing a law that allowed insurers to refuse coverage to sick children. Insurance companies across the country, including Louisville-based Humana and Anthem, Kentucky's largest health insurer, responded by halting the sale of new child-only plans. Advocates protested the move, saying it amounted to working around one of the reform law's biggest consumer protections.
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