A new report says that by 2014 as many as 12.1 million now-uninsured young adults — of an estimated 14.8 million – may get some kind of subsidized coverage under provisions of the new health-care overhaul law.
The Commonwealth Fund issue brief says 7.2 million young adults could gain health coverage under Medicaid, which is expanding under the health law, and that 4.9 million may receive subsidized private coverage under the new insurance exchanges. Those provisions don’t kick in until 2014.
Another million young adults are expected to be covered by their parents’ health policies between now and 2014, as a result of the now-in-effect provision requiring plans to cover adult children up to age 26.
About 30% of the 32 million additional people expected to come into the insurance fold as a result of various health-law provisions are between the ages of 19 and 29, the brief says.
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