Under 26 year olds now insured bc of Obama's health care victory.

Good that parents will get the opportunity to provide healthcare for their adult children considering that companies that provide benefits just aren't hiring the kids or anyone really.

 

Taste the rainbow?

 

And you continue to change my username to something that I find offensive.

I don't like the idea of parents taking care of their 25 year old kids. Sure its their choice, but it will seem like a burden to some parents. Kids take their parents' kindness too far. It seems like kids are remaining dependents at older and older ages.

 

Of course, back in the good ole days no one had health insurance. A kid only needed a high school education back then to get a job and not a degree that costs over $100k or an advanced degree for another $150k.

Times be a changing.

 

The object is to ensure as many people are insured as possible. When the GOP blocked the 100% coverage option, this was one tool used to insure more people.

A social commentary on your opinion of when parental obligations should end are not particularly relevant. In fact, aren't relevant at all.

If your concern is that we SHOULD have a government option, then your anger should be directed at the NO Party that blocked it. Given the reality, this option is better than no option.

 

Who said I wan't angry with both parties? And as I said I don't have a problem with this part of the bill. I do have a problem with the lazy kids sapping every dollar out of their parents. And it doesn't help that I feel this part of the law will become fairly irrelevant in the near future.

Until 2014 most employed children won't be allowed on their parent's plan because some type of plan is offered at their work and only new plans have to allow those people to join now.

 

Where the hell did you go to college?

 

I thought you became an adult when you can vote and serve in the military, but according to the liberal world, a 26 year old is still consider a baby!

 

Thank all the other citizens forced to pay higher premiums.

Don't thank Obama.

 

doesn't matter, the point being is my first job out of college I didn't have health insurance. I was 24 and working like a dog but between rent in nyc and paying off 75K in student loans no way I could afford another $400 for health insurance. Wasn't like I was eating like a king. I barely had enough to make rent much less see a doctor for a sprained ankle.

 

You don't understand the situation. We have excellent insurance through the state of Texas, he's very cheap to add, and very few insurance policies would be as good as what he has now. I can't imagine that they would be any cheaper. Also, any state supported insurance would be far more expensive for an out of state student, as he is, since it's a state university in another state. This is a great benefit... both for him and for us.

 

Of course, you are conveniently leaving out critical facts. You can put the kids on the insurance policy...at full cost. This is prohibitive for most people. At my work, it would cost my co-worker $700.00 a month to put his kids on his policy. They do much better buying a high deductible policy. That has not changed.

 

you people just need to stay healthier. and you wouldnt have to worry about all this crap.

 

it matters to me because it sounds like you got ripped off.

 

screw you. why you got to take cheap shots like that?

 

Incentivizing more young people to stay in school longer improves the jobless rate... and take out more loans! WIN-WIN?

All kidding aside, I love the idea of some kind of universal option but am leery of it due to the susceptibility of bureaucratic bloat.

Seems like the best approach might be to legislate guaranteed issuance of a standard policy and let the free market reign.... with strong tax advantages for every penny spent by consumers.

 

Unless you already had cancer, and maybe even if you already had cancer, there's no way anything but the most gold-plated health insurance would have cost you $400 a month at 24. Unless you mean $400 per 6 months or year, at which point you could have afforded it, if you would have wanted it.

 

I don't think you're necessarily right. My sister was between jobs for a few months when she was 29. She's always been in perfect health. It cost her several hundred dollars per month for a very high deductible policy that covered almost nothing but catastrophe.

 

Because my employer-provided healthcare was so expensive a couple of years ago, I went out and got my own policy. I was 27. With a $1500 deductible, Blue Cross/Blue Shield was $75/month. Healthy young women may pay more because they can get pregnant, so I don't know, but any healthy man under 30 can find insurance way under $400/month, if they shop around. (Unless New York has regulated the competition completely out, which is plausible.)