The new health care law says that the coverage for children with certain pre-existing conditions should not be dropped. This message was conveyed by the Obama Administration to the health insurers on Monday.

The message was conveyed through a letter by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to Karen Ignagni, chair of America's Health Insurance Plans. This group is responsible for promoting the health insurance industry in Washington.

New York Times reported that insurance companies are arguing that they need not provide insurance coverage for sick children as of now. This made Sebelius write a letter.

Sebelius wrote, "Unfortunately, recent media accounts indicate that some insurance companies may be seeking to avoid or ignore a provision in the new law that prohibits insurance companies from excluding children with pre-existing conditions from coverage".

Insurers opined that the pre-existing conditions must be covered if they provide insurance for a child. But simultaneously the law does not require them to write insurance for the child and it does not give assurance about the availability of coverage for all, until 2014.

Sebelius shared that regulations will be issued in the coming weeks, which will erase uncertainty about the law and make it certain by September that, "children with pre-existing conditions may not be denied access to their parents' health insurance plan".