I searched half heartedly a while back for a different insurance plan for my child as I was told repeatedly I was paying too much, just asked blue cross and blue shield and they said they don't offer child only- strange, I thought they did. I intended to look further, but I forgot about it for a while. Got back to investigating it again tonight. Guess what?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/us/01ttinsurance.html
http://americaninsuranceplus.com/insurance/health/children.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/01/us/01ttinsurance.html
Child-Only Insurance Vanishes, a Health Act Victim
By EMILY RAMSHAW
Only months from their 65th birthdays and the switch from employer-offered health coverage to Medicare, Phillip and Diann Green of Forney realized they had a problem. After retirement, none of the state's insurance companies will cover their 12-year-old granddaughter, Aria, whom they have raised since her infancy.
Insurers in Texas and across the nation — protesting a provision of the 2010 federal health care overhaul that prohibits pre-existing condition limitations for children under 19, have simply stopped offering new child-only policies. For children being raised by their grandparents, who are not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid and have no employer-offered insurance or family plans to cover them, there are few options.
No agency keeps track of how many children in Texas are affected by the elimination of child-only plans, but experts suggest it is in the thousands.
http://americaninsuranceplus.com/insurance/health/children.htm
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