Parents who are thinking of looking for child-only health insurance coverage might want to pay especially close attention to insurers’ open enrollment periods, based on a recent news release from the Health and Human Services Department (HHS). In the wake of health care reform, many insurance companies have dropped or are threatening to drop child-only policies, a move which drew fire from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on October 13, writing to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, “Unfortunately, as we discussed, some insurers have decided to stop writing new business in the 'child-only' insurance market – reneging on a previous commitment made in a March letter to 'make pre -existing condition exclusions a thing of the past,'" adding, “… the decision of some health insurance companies to stop selling new polices for children is extremely disappointing.” This latest move by the insurance industry has forced the Obama Administration to make yet ano...