If the government stopped destroying jobs with increased regulations, employer mandates, and higher taxes, and if it allowed insurance companies to charge young people much lower rates, reflecting their health, more young people would have jobs with health insurance or be able to afford individual policies.
The freeloaders are coming out of the woodwork.
They will hopefully be billed at the same rates...otherwise it will collapse the insurance pools, robbing them of high paying, low using customers and forcing them out of business and everyone will end up in ObamaCare...oooooohhhhh...now I get it...
Spouse and kids can’t be on the policy? What cold hearted people! Do they not realize that some people in their twenties don’t have parents? And what about the kids? A twenty-five year old single mother can get on her parents’ insurance but not the grandbaby? What’s up with that?
I guess this won’t represent an additional expense to the parents.
If you add extra people to your policy, do your premiums increase? I started buying my own health insurance when I was 21.
What was the situation before this new age limit of 26?
Young people don’t care about health insurance coverage. This is more about the Obama suck-up media trying to offer support to their dear leader. AP, you are a disgrace.
Children being allowed on a parent’s insurance policy has been an Illinois state law since 6/1/09. Will they eventually make us pay our children’s rent and car payment also?
Its like - presto - all those young adults will go from being uncovered to covered. Thanks Barry!
It’s politics.
Everybody gets a break,
Except you, sucker!
How much must I pay,
If nobody else has to?
Five times my take-home?
Junior and Sweety are coming back onto Mommy’s and Daddy’s insurance? Guess what’s about to happen to family rates for medical insurance. Surprise! Unexpected!
Maybe it’s not quite the free ride it was advertised as, at least in this case. If this woman was paying as employee only and now has to go to the family rate, that’s usually a pretty good bump - almost double in my plan. Of course if someone has an adult child with a serious pre-existing condition, the insurance company is the loser which may be the most common case where this will be used.
It was cheaper for my wife and I to maintain separate insurance until the children came along. Now we are on a “Self and Family” plan, which costs three times what either of the “Self Only” plans cost.
So, yeah... The parents are screwed...
Are parents allowed to claim their 26-year old children as "dependents" on their tax returns?
This is complete and utter BS. AP needs to get its facts straight.’ In PA a child can stay on a parent’s insurance plan until age 31, NJ and NY are also 31. Wisc i think is 28.Several are 27
In fact nearly all states allow children on their parent’s insurance until 25. I am not sure if there is a state that doesn’t
The LIES MSM keeps on telling are vile
The real result is there is no healthcare nor insurance.
At least it sounds like that the way this has been written.
No doctors; no health care.
The moochers bought a pig in a polk.
Someone said it best-—
Obama advocates that 11 year olds should have the right to abortion and also advocates that 26 year old are too immature to leave home.
“struggling to get on their feet during the worst slump since the Depression.”
My daughter, 20 and in college, has rarely been without a job since before she turned 18. She knows that Mom and Dad aren’t going to pay for the phone and that we expect to be reimbursed for her part of the car insurance. She pays gas, she pays to eat out (if not with us), she pays for clothes. She has and uses a budget book, and she can make ends meet.
Spare me your “struggling to get on their feet” Bravo Sierra, journalist.
Colonel, USAFR
Dwight here has been living in his Mom's basement since he dropped out of the local community college. Dwight is approaching 40 and plays WOW all day. Dwight thinks it's unfair that he's too old to be on his Mom's insurance. Dwight votes Democrat - unless election day interferes with a "Mythbusters" marathon.
I just read elsewhere that it will NOT include married children.