Let’s please not demonize the poor misunderstood health care industry:
The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers cover kids,
regardless of medical problems. This is one of the most important and
most popular elements of the bill, and one that appears to have a
loophole allowing insurers who carry policies that would cover children
as individuals to just not offer them. The reason? All those
irresponsible and greedy parents who won’t bother to insure their kids
until they’re sick. Really:“Our plans are very concerned about this,” said Alissa Fox, a top
Washington lobbyist for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. “If the
law says that insurers have to take you any time, any place, some people will see that as an opportunity to wait until their children get sick to buy coverage.”A psychologist might call that projection–insurers are so used to
figuring out how to game the system, exploit loopholes, and circumvent
regulations, that’s just business as usual.
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