{"id":88238,"date":"2013-09-10T18:42:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T22:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/health-care-reform-success-hinges-on-young-invincibles.php"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T22:42:28","slug":"health-care-reform-success-hinges-on-young-invincibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/health-care-reform-success-hinges-on-young-invincibles.php","title":{"rendered":"Health care reform success hinges on &#39;young invincibles&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Photo: #In this 2012 file photo, Samantha Ames, 25, of    Washington, plays with her French bulldog, Harvey, at her home.    In April 2011, she tripped over her mini bulldog and badly    injured her left ankle. Ultimately she needed surgery that cost    her insurer $30,000. But she considers herself lucky. Only a    few months before her accident, Ames had been able to get back    on her parents' insurance, thanks to a provision of the health    care law that lets young adults keep that coverage until they    turn 26. Nationally an estimated 2.5 million young people have    gotten insurance as a result.                <\/p>\n<p>      In this 2012 file photo, Samantha Ames, 25, of Washington,      plays with her French bulldog, Harvey, at her home. In April      2011, she tripped over her mini bulldog and badly injured her      left ankle. Ultimately she needed surgery that cost her      insurer $30,000. But she considers herself lucky. Only a few      months before her accident, Ames had been able to get back on      her parents' insurance, thanks to a provision of the health      care law that lets young adults keep that coverage until they      turn 26. Nationally an estimated 2.5 million young people      have gotten insurance as a result. (Jacquelyn      Martin\/ASSOCIATED PRESS)    <\/p>\n<p>            Audio player code:            <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"minnesota_news_programs_daily_circuit_1_2013_09_10_dailycircuityounginvincibles_20130910_64s_player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"319\" height=\"83\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/www_publicradio\/tools\/media_player\/syndicate.php?name=minnesota\/news\/programs\/daily_circuit_1\/2013\/09\/10\/dailycircuityounginvincibles_20130910_64\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe>          <\/p>\n<p>    As health care exchanges roll out Oct. 1, the Obama    Administration is on a mission to convince young people to buy    health insurance.  <\/p>\n<p>    In a     recent poll by Commonwealth Fund, a supporter of healthcare    reform, young adults have already been taking advantage of one    of the law's provisions that allows people to stay on their    parents' health insurance until age 26.  <\/p>\n<p>    From     NBC News:  <\/p>\n<p>      \"Public opinion polls found a partisan divide ... but      Republicans and Democrats both took advantage of the young      adult provisions,\" says Commonwealth vice president Sara      Collins, who led the study. \"In fact, more Republicans than      Democrats did.\"    <\/p>\n<p>      They found that by last March, 63 percent of young adults      identifying as Republicans had enrolled in a parent's health      plan in the last 12 months, compared to 45 percent of those      who considered themselves Democrats. About 26 percent of the      1,800 adults surveyed said they were Republicans, 28 percent      said they were Democrats and the rest either said they were      independent, some other party, or did not say...    <\/p>\n<p>      Overall, 15 million 19-to-25-year-olds, or about half of all      Americans this age, are on their parents' health plan, the      report says.    <\/p>\n<p>    For the Obama administration, convincing young people to enroll    could be a deal breaker for the success of the law.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Continued here: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/09\/10\/daily-circuit-young-uninsured-health-care?refid=0\" title=\"Health care reform success hinges on &#39;young invincibles&#39;\">Health care reform success hinges on &#39;young invincibles&#39;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Photo: #In this 2012 file photo, Samantha Ames, 25, of Washington, plays with her French bulldog, Harvey, at her home. In April 2011, she tripped over her mini bulldog and badly injured her left ankle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/health-care\/health-care-reform-success-hinges-on-young-invincibles.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}