A provision of the health care bill that bars health insurers from refusing to cover sick children [1] with pre-existing conditions will go into effect on Thursday [2], and several of the nation's largest health insurers, anticipating the change, have found a way to avoid bearing the law's full effect.
Many have dropped child-only policies altogether, in states where they're allowed to. |
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