Atlanta – Officials: 3.1M Young Adults In US Gain Coverage

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    Atlanta – U.S. health officials say the number of young adults with medical coverage grew by more than 3 million since the new health care overhaul took effect.

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    The Affordable Care Act mandates that insurers allow young adults to remain on their parents’ plans until they turn 26, even if they move away from home or graduate from school. About 64 percent of adults ages 19 to 25 had insurance when the policy took effect in 2010.

    Now, a national survey has found 75 percent of people in that age group have health insurance. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the findings Tuesday.

    The Supreme Court is considering a constitutional challenge to President Barack Obama’s law, but this provision has been popular with consumers.

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    Online:

    HHS report: http://aspe.hhs.gov/aspe/gaininginsurance/rb.shtml


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    FredE
    FredE
    11 years ago

    So what will happen if the Republicans win? How many people will lose coverage?

    rationalman
    rationalman
    11 years ago

    there are young people that gave up their company sponsored insurance to let their parents pay for their health insurance and they pocket the cost of their premium. as for the cost of including these up to age 26ers, guess what you and I are paying for it, it’s not free

    PMOinFL
    PMOinFL
    11 years ago

    Look. Nobody argues that having more people with proper health insurance is a bad thing. We all agree on that. The more people with proper coverage, the less of MY tax dollars has to go to pay for the deadbeats and the lower premiums we all pay as the costs to the providers goes down (since they aren’t giving 20-35% of their services away for free).

    The issue is whether the government has the right to force you to buy anything at all.

    From my perspective, nobody should be forced to buy anything.

    HOWEVER, that also means you can’t force private companies to provide services to deadbeats either and expect them to eat the cost with some small subsidy from the taxpayers.

    You can’t have it both ways. Either get insurance, or give a credit card at the door. If you can’t do either, there are already community clinics funded by churches and other non-profits that will help you as well as you can expect for FREE.

    P.S. Obviously those who are physically disabled and physically or mentally cannot work in order to care for themselves deserve our help and support and are ALWAYS worthy of a share in our hard-earned money.

    yankelet
    yankelet
    11 years ago

    D’worry, here’s AP campaigning for Obama. Because in this detail it might have been a good idea. However 85% of the fine print in the health care law doesent.

    ASimpleJew
    ASimpleJew
    11 years ago

    3.1 million gained coverage and who is paying for these additional souls? Do I need to answer that?