Many questions continue to come in about covering young adults to age 26 on their parents' health insurance coverage. Officially, the regulations governing this issue go into affect on September 23rd, 2010. I've taken the liberty of including an excellent Q&A page from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services website - www.hhs.gov. It's very comprehensive and covers all the bases.
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Question: I have prescription drug coverage under Medicare and will be hitting the "doughnut hole" pretty soon. What will the new healthcare bill help me pay for my drugs?
I'm signed over my Medicare to Secure Horizons, which I like. I heard these type plans are to be cancelled by the new healthcare reform?
Question: Is anything being done to control skyrocketing health care costs?
Question: My older son will be 23 on July 4th. He's now on our family insurance because he's a student. We have received notice that he will he have to get his own coverage. Also, my daughter will be 19 on October 16th. She will not be a full time student at that time. Can she stay on our insurance?
Question: How do you think all this health insurance reform change will impact our premiums? I do understand that you can only give me an opinion, and please allow yourself to speculate if you have to, but the bottom line is that most people I know are just worried about the economical impact of this change in their budgets, and we would like to know what possible scenario are we going to be confronting. From HealthcareShopper customer, Renee Sanudo
How do I sign up for my new insurance?
Question: I hear that most of the Health Reform changes won't happen until 2014. What, if anything, changes right away?
