Days after President Obama signed the new healthcare law, insurance companies are already arguing that they do not have to provide one of the benefits that the president calls a centerpiece of the law: coverage for certain children with pre-existing conditions. The authors of the law say they meant to ban all forms of discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions. The goal, they say, was to provide those youngsters with access to insurance and to a full range of benefits once they are in a health plan. But to insurance companies, the language of the law is not so clear, the New York Times reports.
