Young Adults Can Face Challenges To Health Enrollment

(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)

The Obama administration is making a push to get young adults covered on the health insurance marketplaces, both for their own good and that of the marketplaces, which need healthy people to balance sicker ones in the risk pool. While experts applaud the beefed up outreach planned for the coming months, they point to several factors that may throw a wrench into enrollment plans for young people.

To start with, the transition from children’s Medicaid to adult coverage can be bumpy. Nineteen is the age at which kids from lower-income households are generally no longer eligible to be covered as children by the Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program. Options for them include moving to adult Medicaid in states that have expanded coverage to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $16,000) or buying a subsidized plan on the health insurance marketplace. Read article here……

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

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