The Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury have issued regulations implementing the Affordable Care Act by expanding dependent coverage for adult children up to age 26. Many parents and their children who worried about losing health insurance after the children moved away from home or graduated from college no longer need to worry. The Affordable Care Act requires plans and issuers that offer coverage to children on their parents’ plan to make the coverage available until the adult child reaches the age of 26. Nearly half of uninsured young adults report problems paying medical bills.

Contrary to the myth that young people don’t need health insurance, one in six young adults has a chronic illness like cancer, diabetes or asthma. Young adults’ health and finances are at risk.The uninsured rate among employed young adults is one-third higher than older employed adults. As young adults transition into the job market, they often have entry-level jobs, part-time jobs, or jobs in small businesses, and other employment that typically comes without employer-sponsored health insurance.

Y oung adults have the lowest rate of access to employer-based insurance.This rate is higher than any other age group, and is three times higher than the uninsured rate among children.

About 30% of young adults are uninsured, representing more than one in five of the uninsured.

Y oung adults have the highest rate of uninsured of any age group.

Before the President signed this landmark Act into law, many health plans and issuers could and did in fact remove young adults from their parents’ policies because of their age, leaving many college graduates and others with no insurance. The Affordable Care Act allows young adults to stay on their parents’ health care plan until age 26.

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