SchaferAutismReport: Flap on Children's Coverage Settled

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NEWSFlap on Children's Coverage Settled Insurers Say They Will Accept Pre-Existing Conditions After Dispute on Timing, Warn of Higher Prices By Avery , online.wsj.com is.gd/b5Nay

Insurers said they would comply with regulations the government issues requiring them to cover children with pre-existing conditions, after a dispute with lawmakers over interpretation of the

new health-care legislation. The Obama administration has made near-immediate coverage for sick children a priority in its health-care overhaul. But shortly after the bill's passage last week, insurers contended that the law didn't require them to accept sick children until 2014.

The insurance industry's lobby, America's Health Insurance Plans, initially said the law meant only that they needed to cover treatments for sick children who already were customers. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of Health and Human Services, sent AHIP president Ignagni a letter Monday pledging to issue new regulations in coming weeks to clarify that insurers must take applications from sick children starting in September. "Now is not the time to search for non-existent loopholes that preserve a broken system," Ms. Sebelius said. AHIP said de-linking the requirement to insure sick children from the law's mandate that everyone buy health-insurance coverage, which goes into effect in 2014, could drive up prices in the meantime. But the group said it would do whatever HHS tells it to do. AHIP spokesman Zirkelbach said the group was calculating

how much it would cost to

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