POLL: Should Law Require Health Care Coverage for Young Adults?

Some top insurers plan to keep the provision no matter the outcome of the Affordable Health Care Act, but it's unclear if the GOP would mandate it in any version of the law it puts forward.

One of the first provisions of the Affordable Health Care Act to take effect was mandatory coverage for young adults, through age 25. Insurers are required to offer coverage through parents’ plans to those adult children, and an estimated 13.7 million of them are on those programs. The Supreme Court in late June upheld the entire controversial act by a 5-4 vote, but the battle is by no means over. GOP lawmakers still hope to repeal the measure by gaining a Senate majority in November, with Wisconsin one of the key states in that effort. But a Huffington Post story last week noted that while the GOP remains firmly against the Affordable Health Care Act, that provision for young adults has broader support. Many lawmakers have children who …

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Joana Briggs

3:58 pm on Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Obamacare is So Flawed, We Have to Start Over

Regardless of the Supreme Court decides on health care law, we should repeal it and replace it with common-sense solutions that will make health care more affordable for Americans.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of Obamacare sometime this month. Americans want to repeal all or part of the law by margin of 2 to 1. It’s no wonder, as we are living the nightmare of Nancy Pelosi’s “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” While we wait for the court’s decision, the president’s health care law has already become a giant discouragement to our job creators. In order to pay for the monstrous new entitlement, the bill includes several new taxes. One example was the expanded 1099 reporting requirement that would have forced businesses to a file a tax form with the IRS every time they paid more than $600 to a vendor in a year. The provision would have particularly hurt small …

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