Insurers Seek to Avoid ‘Worst of All Worlds’ in Health-Care Case

For insurance companies nervously watching the legal fight over the constitutionality of the president’s health-care law, it would be the unthinkable:

The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the law’s so-called individual mandate, which requires millions of young, healthy people to buy coverage -- but leaves intact rules compelling insurers to cover sick people, who are likely to cost far more in benefits than they pay in premiums. Congress is then left to fix the problem.