Insurers Announce Agreement on Child Coverage

Democrats and the legacy media are crowing that Obama has done it again and vanquished his foes in the evil insurance industry. Gibbsy tweets:

Kids 1, insurance 0 as companies agree to comply with new regs so kids with pre-existing conditions can get health ins.

It was a losing issue for insurance companies and they needed to get it off the table quickly. So why not send out their chief lobbyist to announce they're playing nice-nice?

"Health plans recognize the significant hardship that a family faces when they are unable to obtain coverage for a child with a pre-existing condition," Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, said in a letter to Sebelius. Ignagni said that the industry will "fully comply" with the regulations, expected within weeks.

Of course, you'd have to be as foolish as Gibbs to believe that when the lawsuits get filed, the actual text of the ObamaCare law, which doesn't require insurers to cover children with preexisting conditions, will be given less attention that the letter of a lobbyist and inconsistent regulations from HHS.

Insurers want to change the subject. Dems want to show the President winning. They've agreed to their own private reality.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 09:20 AM

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