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Article Date: 05/25/2010

Healthcare Overhaul Expected to Help Young Adults
The new healthcare overhaul is expected to help young adults, such as allowing them to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26. However, some students are over 26 and are unable to take advantage of this law if their parents do not have coverage and student health plans may be their only option. Luckily, the new law may help strengthen student plans. For example, by October, all health plans must eliminate lifetime limits on coverage as well as most annual limits. In addition, health plans will be required to spend 80 to 85 percent of the premiums they collect on clinical services and quality measures starting next year, or give consumers a rebate.

Additional changes will be based on how the plans are defined by federal regulators. Starting in 2014, individual plans will have to offer a comprehensive package of "essential health benefits." Large-group plans, however, won't have to meet that requirement. Regardless, they will still have the option to buy health insurance on the new state-based exchanges starting in 2014.

Website Address: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/24/AR2010052403141.html