RUSH: I missed this in trying to catch up with show prep for today. It's yesterday from Life and Health Insurance News: "The health insurance industry has agreed to comply with a provision of the health care reform law requiring them to provide insurance to children with pre-existing medical conditions within 6 months." So the caller was right. I was not wrong, I was just uninformed, but now I am properly informed. "The industry is doing so even though some of its lawyers dispute the scope of the provision in the law as interpreted by Congress and the administration. Health insurers’ view -- supported by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners as well as healthcare lawyers and consultants -- is that the provision mandating that insurers allow parents to buy coverage for children with preexisting conditions doesn’t kick in under the law until 2014," but look, we didn't mean that. They meant it to happen pretty soon so we're going to go ahead and do it.
Media Matters has the audio.
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