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Keeping adult kids on health plans too costly

    As the parent of two unemployed college graduates, I welcomed President Obama’s health care reform that deluded me into thinking I would be allowed to continue providing health care coverage for my sons under the family plan of our current health insurance.
    One of the goals of Obama’s health care plan, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, was to provide an option for adult, unmarried children to be carried under their parents’ policy until the age of 26 if the children are not covered under their own employers’ plans.
    I wonder how many other employed parents will be surprised in the next few months when they attempt to keep their under 26-year-old uninsured child under their current health plan and fi nd out what it is going to cost them monthly. We have just learned that my family’s health insurance through our employer — the state of New York — will cover our children through the Young Adult Option. This “benefi t” will cost us between $400 and $600 monthly per child, depending on which insurance company we chose.
    Is this really an option for most middle-class families, to add this kind of expense to their monthly budget? I urge parents to contact their employer’s benefits administrator ASAP and learn how much of the cost of this new benefit is being passed onto them — the employee.

    MAUREEN UTZ-MEAGHER
    Scotia

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We have kept them home too long.......and wiped their faces way too late in their lives.......give them their wings......adult means just that.......