I guess we had to pass the law to find out what’s in it, eh?
‘‘SEC. 2714 ø42 U.S.C. 300gg–14¿. EXTENSION OF DEPENDENT COVERAGE.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A group health plan and a health insurance
issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage that provides dependent coverage of children shall continue to make such coverage available for an adult child until the child turns 26 years of age. Nothing in this section shall require a health plan or a health insurance issuer described in the preceding sentence to make coverage available for a child of a child receiving dependent coverage. øAs revised by section 2301(b) of HCERA¿
‘‘(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall promulgate regulations to define the dependents to which coverage shall be made available under subsection (a).
‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be
construed to modify the definition of ‘dependent’ as used in the In-ternal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to the tax treatment of the cost of coverage.
I guess this is a post-cultural-revolution thingie. Since nobody ever grows up any more, we just keep on raising the age of dependence.
OTOH, we lower to voting age from 21 to 18, because we want to catch these voters while they’re still under the influence of the teachers union. Who cares if they are responsible for maintaining themselves?
Excellent!!! Now all of us who have (REAL) children at home and need dependent health coverage for them can expect to be told soon that NO DEPENDENTS WILL BE COVERED.
I wish I could say unintended consequences....
How do shack-ups fare with kids?
Are they covered?
I have never heard of a medical policy that covers kids up to age 26, is it ... that don’t even have to live with their parents!
Totallt INSANE.
Obama is an idiot!
I say if anything, they should force the “kids” to insure their elderly parents. If we have to support them until they’re 26, then it’s fair to force them to support us in our golden years, when they are making the big bucks.
It is absolutely imperative that we win the Presidency and the Senate in 2012.
Losing is just not an option.
This monster of a bill has to be thrown out.
I didn't know it was possible to be an adult and a child at the same time.
Jeez it took years to get my adult son out of the house and off my wallet.
Now ObummerCare in effect keeps him and kids like him on all of the wallets of we taxpayers. Government as a big nanny has to end.
I despise Obamacare with my entire being, but is it really saying that you are FORCED to pay for your child’s insurance, or is it actually saying that you can CHOOSE to pay for your child’s insurance if you like?
I would like the ability to pay for decent health care insurance for a child in college, if I didn’t like the options he had there (although if the university has a traching hospital, it’s probably a cheaper choice to use student health).
This is not one of the more odious parts of Obamacare, if it only gives you the CHANCE to insure your college or newly working kid. As long as you are not forced to cover him.
The married thing seems pretty stupid, though, but hey - no one read the bill, so who checked for these mistakes??
On the bright side, that 26 yr old’s spouse is not entitled to be on your policy. At least not yet...
(I am trying to picture Archie Bunker living through that situation...)
Yes, this is the Federal law.
It was Republicans who forced the removal of the act of marriage as a “life event” that would end eligibility under the parent(s) dependent care health insurance.