For most young adults in the U.S., the cutoff age for staying on a parent’s health insurance plan is 26 per the Affordable Care Act. Before your 26thbirthday, you can be covered by either or both parents’ employer-sponsored or marketplace plans – and you don’t have to be classifi...
Effective September 2010, one component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act permits adult dependents to remain on their parents' insurance plans until their 26th birthday. This coverage provision also applies to adult dependents under age 26 who no longer live with their parents, are ...
Results released today [12/14/11] by the National Center for Health Statistics demonstrate that the extension of dependent coverage up to age 26 has increased the number of young adults with health insurance, by even more than prior analyses had suggested.This policy, enacted as part of the ...
Using American Community Survey data, we use a difference-in-differences regression approach comparing the likelihood of working in the arts for college graduates with majors in the arts who are just under- and just over-26, pre- and post-implementation of the ACA’s dependent coverage expansion...
Young and Uninsured Focuses on the inability of young adults to afford health insurance in Louisiana. Percentage of young adults without health insurance; Importance of insurance of employed young adults; Incapacity of young adults to pay for their insurance. RA Webster - 《New Orleans Citybusiness...
Had government never intervened in the health sector, private insurance companies might already be offering more comprehensive cost-sharing for insulin than congressional Democrats propose, without driving insulin prices higher. Or perhaps insulin prices would be so low that no one would feel the need...
Health InsuranceSmall BusinessSelf-employmentWe utilize the NLSY97 data to study the impact of health insurance coverage on the decision to enter self-employment. We find that employer insurance coverage has a strong "pull" effect on the decision, especially among older males. Older females who ...
Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January–June 2011. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2011. 17. McMorrow S, Kenney GM, Long SK, Anderson N. Uninsurance among young adults continues to decline, particularly in ...
Prior to the 2014 rollout of theAffordable Care Act (ACA), many 20- and 30-somethings chose to forgo health insurance altogether; roughly 30% of young adults under age 26 had no health insurance at all.12And not without reason: These “young invincibles,” as some experts call them, hav...
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