Insurers to drop child-only plans

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - As Glenn Reynolds sarcastically asks, “Who could have seen 'this' coming?” Most of us outside of the White House understood that by forcing insurers to take on more risk while pressuring them to keep prices down, we would either see insurers stop offering certain policies or go out of business altogether. ObamaCare advocates kept insisting that we had to help the 'children' by proceeding apace with their government takeover of the industry. The result? Suffer the children:

Some of the country’s most prominent health insurance companies have decided to stop offering new child-only plans, rather than comply with rules in the new health-care law that will require such plans to start accepting children with preexisting medical conditions after Sept. 23.

The companies will continue to cover children who already have child-only policies. They will also accept children with preexisting conditions in new family policies.