{"id":3417,"date":"2016-07-05T07:33:23","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2016-07-05T07:40:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T11:40:59","slug":"young-adults-can-face-challenges-to-health-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3417","title":{"rendered":"Young Adults Can Face Challenges To Health Enrollment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Newsroom\/MediaReleaseDatabase\/Fact-sheets\/2016-Fact-sheets-items\/2016-06-21.html\" target=\"_blank\">making a push<\/a> 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.\u00a0While experts applaud the beefed up outreach\u00a0planned for the coming months, they point to several factors that may throw a wrench into enrollment plans for young people.<\/p>\n<p>To start with, the transition from children\u2019s 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\u2019s Health Insurance Program.\u00a0Options 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/young-adults-can-face-challenges-to-health-enrollment\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31289717&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--46V7vS0UlL4OkC5QWMEcx0tF6XtHflUWvwcKOO7ozKjnkOs3mBgju1ymeygcNDGBS9XYqaXF-inYIjDe45F9mfQLBeg&amp;_hsmi=31289717\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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