Young adults join parents' health-care plans in droves

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Young adults join parents' health-care plans in droves

by Phil Galewitz - May. 8, 2011 12:00 AM Kaiser Health News

WASHINGTON - Hundreds of thousands of young adults are taking advantage of the

2010 health-care-law provision that allows people younger than 26 to remain on

their parents' health plans, some of the nation's largest insurers are

reporting. That pace appears to be faster than the government expected.

WellPoint, the nation's largest publicly traded health insurer, with 34 million

customers, said the provision on dependents was responsible for adding 280,000

members. That was about one-third of its total enrollment growth in the first

three months of this year.

Other large insurers said they had also added tens of thousands of young

adults...

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