New Data: Affordable Care Act Helps 600,000 Additional Young Adults in the Midwest Get Health Insurance

by Gary Kopycinski on December 15, 2011

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Expanded coverage from the health care law has continued to grow

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 14, 2011. Today, the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data illustrating that the Affordable Care Act continues to significantly increase the number of young adults who have health insurance.

Because of the health care law, young adults can stay on their parents’ insurance plans through age 26. This policy took effect in…