Health & Medicine / Young Adults Eager to Join Parents' Health Plan - - Struggling 'Millennials' Get Help From Health-Care Reform

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CHICAGO - Congress voted to overhaul the health care system on a Sunday. On Monday, Patti Lawson e-mailed her employer's human resources office to ask how soon she could get her 22-year-old daughter back on her health insurance.

In about six months, the new law will allow at least 2 million young adults to be covered under their parents' policies. These are the "millennials," those who came of age in the new century and now are struggling to get on their feet during the worst slump since the Depression.

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Health & Medicine / Young Adults Eager to Join Parents' Health Plan - - Struggling 'Millennials' Get Help From Health-Care Reform

Many can't find jobs, and many who are employed don't have health coverage from their employers.

The law will allow young adults to stay on or return to their parents' insurance until age 26. To qualify, young people must...

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