Editor,
Back to school: new school year, new classes, new books, new apartment, new health care law. Among the aforementioned laundry list of “new” for students, health care is one big cost-saving item.
And unlike those new books, young adults may actually find this provision of the health care law to be both interesting and useful.
Last August, students older than 19 years of age could be dropped from their parents’ insurance plans if their providers chose to do so. Today, they can be covered up until the age of 26. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more than 3.7 million young people and counting are now insured.
With the inevitable stress of assignments, exams and extracurricular activities, financial stress over health insurance is one thing that students won’t have to worry about as they head back to school. Even seniors graduating in the spring can enjoy their last year without the fear of no longer being covered once they’re out of school; people younger than 26 don’t even need to live with their parents to be covered by the plan.
Obamacare has the health coverage part taken care of; something to keep in mind as you’re heading to the polls this November.
Frank Cole
Daily Lobo reader
