Obama, Allies Ready Health Care Blitz

Politico, Sept. 15, 2010
The White House and allies are plotting campaigns they hope can bolster public opinion of the health care overhaul ...
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Millions of Young Adults to Regain Parents' Health Coverage

Sacramento Bee, Sept. 3, 2010
Millions of 20-somethings who became uninsured after falling off their parents' health plans can regain coverage soon as a key provision of the federal health care overhaul law takes effect.
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Several health care reform provisions begin Thursday Young adults can return to parents' insurance

Multiple articles, Sept. 22, 2010
When Tamisha Jackson turned 22 and graduated from college last year, she was pushed off her parents' health insurance plan. Since then, she's become a graduate student in women's studies at Towson University but hasn't been able to foot the $1,400 annual bill for coverage from the school. To compensate, she's been popping vitamins and watching her step.

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Health insurance a tough sell for young people

Marketplace, Sept. 23, 2010
Insurance companies are looking forward to healthy young people back on their books, now that the age children can stay on their parents' health insurance jumped from 19 to 26. But first, they'll have to convince young people that it's worth it.
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Health Care Law Helps Students Remain Covered

WBALTV, Sept. 23, 2010
There's a piece of the new federal health care law that allows people up to age 26 to stay on their parents' health insurance longer, and that's good news for many college students.
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New Health Law's Protections For Adult Children Begins

Kaiser Health News, Sept. 23, 2010
Parents, mark your calendars. Starting Sept. 23, adult children will no longer be left to fend for themselves in their search for health insurance. The new federal health law requires that insurers give parents the option of keeping their adult children covered until they're 26 years old. It becomes effective for the health policy at the beginning of the plan year.
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Young adults back extended health care

MidHudsonRadio.com, Sept. 23, 2010
Young adults in a new group called Young Invincibles praised the provisions of the federal health law that now allow people up to the age of 26 – 29 in New York – to maintain health insurance coverage on their parents’ plans. The group gathered Thursday in New Paltz, led by Amanda Sisenstein.
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Health consumers to begin feeling effects of plan

Coloradoan, Sept. 23, 2010
Howard and Cindy Coopersmith are breathing a little easier today knowing their 22-year-old daughter, Sheila, will have health insurance when she graduates from CU in May. The political science major suffers from asthma and allergies requiring expensive daily medication to keep the conditions under control
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Young Adults Can Get Back on Parents' Insurance

The Texas Tribune, Sept. 23, 2010
When Amanda Holguin moved from El Paso to Dallas over the summer, she anticipated taking a semester off from school, hoping to work and adjust to life in a new city. Instead, the 22-year-old soon found herself sifting through the Dallas Community College course schedule, picking classes. Unable to find a job with health benefits, Holguin needed to enroll as a full-time student so she could stay on her father’s insurance plan.
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New health care changes are only the beginning

CNN Health, Sept. 23, 2010
After completing his second year of business classes at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, in 2007, Joshua Armstrong decided to take a break from full-time studies. Armstrong who had been insured through his parents' health insurance policy, thought he would remain on that plan until he finished school and found a job offering health benefits. So, he didn't seek out another policy on his own during his break.
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Insight into changing rules

USA Today, Sept. 23, 2010
Parents, mark your calendars. Starting Thursday, adult children will no longer be left to fend for themselves in their search for health insurance. The new federal health law requires that insurers, when parents renew their plans, give them the option of keeping their adult children on their plans until they reach the age of 26.
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A "New Day" for Healthcare Coverage in Nebraska

42 KPTM, Sept. 23, 2010
"As everyone of us around the table, and I think every other American who experienced problems with their health before, will tell you, ‘This is a really big deal,'" said 20-year old Emily Schlichting. Schlichting is one of many who are impacted by the new Affordable Care Act.
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Nebraskans ask politicians to walk in their shoes on health care reform

The Journal Star, Sept. 23, 2010
The four Nebraska women represent aspects of health care reform that took effect Thursday. Omaha mother Colleen Brennan Jankovich stands for the ban preventing insurers from considering a child's pre-existing medical condition.
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Health care terms impact students

The Diamondback, Sept. 24, 2010
Effective yesterday, young people can opt to remain on their parents' insurance plans until the age of 26, regardless of marital, student, financial or health status, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said at a news conference yesterday in Stamp Student Union.
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Health law described as a godsend

Omaha World-Herald, Sept. 24, 2010
With two young sons suffering from a kidney disorder, a 3-year-old autistic son and her husband’s telecommunications plant slated to close soon, Colleen Jankovich’s family in west Omaha faced an uncertain financial future.
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