On Friday I received this helpful little missive from my health insurance provider:
"In compliance with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the Board of Pensions will be extending medical coverage to plan members’ qualified adult children up to age 26. All primary plan members enrolled in medical coverage will receive a letter from the Board of Pensions explaining how to enroll adult children up to age 26 in Medical Plan coverage effective January 1, 2011. To qualify, the adult children must not be eligible for coverage under their own employer’s health plan. The explanatory letter will be sent in four mailings from August 23, 2010 through September 28, 2010, based upon your plan enrollment type (Traditional Plan or Affiliated Benefits Program) and last name. The enrollment period will run through October 30, 2010. If you have not received the letter by October 4, 2010, you may call the Board to request a copy."
Our children are 10 and 13, so this doesn't immediately apply to us. And who knows what the health care situation will be a decade from now? Still, it's nice to know, given our older son's autism, that we'll be able to carry him into his mid-20s. It postpones the time when he'll have to switch providers, and his current provider has been very good to him. That fact brings good peace of mind given his extensive medical history.
And then this morning I hear that the Republicans have pledged to repeal health care reform should they retake Congress.
Yes, yes, throws the bums out. I am so with you.
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