West Virginia last week announced that it would not administer its own high-risk insurance pool because GOP members of the state's House of Delegates said the program might fund abortion care, the Charleston Gazette reports (Knezevich, Charleston Gazette, 7/22). The pools -- created under the new health reform law (PL 111-148) -- are intended to provide insurance coverage to residents with pre-existing conditions. They will expire in 2014 when provisions take effect to prohibit insurers from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions (Lillis [1], "Healthwatch," The Hill, 7/23)...
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