Even before Obamacare, the health insurance plan that my company arranged with the insurance company for me still covered my children past age 21, if they were still my dependents.
The correct answer to that question is “as long as the parents are willing to continue to pay the extra cost of coverage for the children”.
And government’s job is to make sure regulations don’t preclude that coverage. Insurance companies will be glad to continue writing policies, and some parents will be glad to pay them.
Because parents know that if their 22-year-old doesn’t buy insurance, and gets sick, the parents are going to make sure they don’t die, whatever the cost. That’s what parents do for their children.
Why are you so concerned with dictating what the correct “conservative” age is to force children off the parent’s insurance coverage? It doesn’t seem conservative to me to interject your opinion into the private contracts of others.
A “child” is an adult at age 21.
He/she should not need to feed at the parental trough past that age..
As a “conservative”, I pay my own medical bills..just like Rush and Levin.
There may come a day when I need major medical and for this, I have coverage. Otherwise, I choose to pay my own way and not be a burden to our already overloaded health care system. How ‘bout you, Charles?
My grown children have their own health insurance. They are all gainfully employed and have policies through their jobs.
Does that describe your “grown” children, Charles?