State legislators in California and Kentucky are requiring health insurance companies to offer “child only” policies during an open enrollment period at the beginning of 2011. Maximum prices are 200% of a standard rated policy in California.

Excerpt from Los Angeles Times article:

Major Health Insurers In California To Resume Offering Individual Policies For Children- California’s largest health insurers, fearing they’ll lose new customers in the state’s lucrative individual insurance market, have canceled controversial decisions last fall to stop selling policies for children” (Helfand, 12/23). Click here for full article.

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