Bottom line because of the coverage until age 26 rule in the ACA, 26 will be interpreted to be the new age of emancipation from parents. Divorce lawyers will have a field day.
Thank goodness the people who set up Obamacare didn’t decide to use The Lord of the Rings as a reference for insurance coverages. Hobbits come of age at 33. But then people would remember that the hobbits rose up and scoured the shire of their oppressors at the end of that book. So only McCain calls us Hobbits, as far as I know. And I’d doubt he has ever bothered much with Tolkien. All that silly good-evil stuff. He’s more likely a part of the “money and power” vs. “less money, no power” theme in Washington.