Side Effects: State Reluctant to Swim in National High-Risk Pools

Kathryn Nix / April 30, 2010

Obamacare aims to insure the uninsured.  To do that, the law bars insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions—but not until 2014.  In the meantime, the law calls for a national high-risk pool to offer coverage to the otherwise “uninsurable.”

Under the new law, an important deadline looms.  By Friday, states must declare whether they will help implement the new risk-pools for their citizens, or if they’ll just let the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services do it for them. (more…)