ObamaCare Endangering Child-Only Policies

One of the major promises of ObamaCare was that children could not be denied coverage due to pre-existing illnesses. Once that provision went into effect, many insurers began looking long and hard at their child-only policies... and some even began dropping them.

That's right, one major effect of ObamaCare has been that health insurers in 34 states have stopped offering child-only policies for sale.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48299.html

Health insurers in 34 states have stopped selling child-only insurance policies as a result of the health reform law, and the market continues to destablize.

According to a survey of state insurance departments by Republican Senate committee staff and obtained by POLITICO, states that have seen carriers exit the market include those that have been ardent supporters of the health reform law, like California and Oregon. Twenty states now have no insurers offering child-only policies.

Yes, children can still be covered under their parents' policies, but gone in many places is the option to take out a policy on your child or children alone. Of those 34 states, fully 20 of them now have no insurers offering child-only policies.

Instead of having more options for health insurance, we now have fewer.

Thanks, ObamaCare. This is what happens when politicians legislate for the purposes of achieving ideological goals, and against the will of the people.