THE Best Political Selling Point of the HCR Bill Is....

[Yavin4]

The ability to add your adult children to your health insurance. That point, more than any others, should be hammered home in ads for the November elections. Adding adult children to you health insurance WILL save many American families thousands of dollars.

More importantly, it's a point that will resonate with voters.

[canoeist52]

1. I'm wondering how this works.

I read that only dependent or student adult children who don't file taxes would be eligible.

[frazzled]

2. I believe that is wrong

I think the only requirement is that they are not offered insurance through their own employment. They no longer have to be full time students. They could have a job and file their own taxes.

[branders seine]

3. it passed.

that's the ONLY political selling point of the bill.

[gmoney]

4. "You know those boomerang kids of yours? Now you have to insure them, too!"

Not much of a selling point for those trying to push the sprouts out of the nest... "Dammit Gerald, put DOWN the Wii and go get a JOB!"

[awoke_in_2003]

5. +10000

I have a stepdaughter at home right now. Think I might have to move to Europe to escape :)

[Yavin4]

7. They Don't Have To Live With You

And they can have jobs as well provided that their employers don't offer healthcare.

[HughMoran]

6. & it mutes much of the objection to the mandate

Young people didn't want to buy insurance - now they won't have to.

[canoeist52]

8. Here's the bill ‘SEC. 2714.

‘‘SEC. 2714. EXTENSION OF DEPENDENT COVERAGE.
17 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A group health plan and a health
18 insurance issuer offering group or individual health insur
19 ance coverage that provides dependent coverage of chil
20 dren shall continue to make such coverage available for
21 an adult child (who is not married) until the child turns
22 26 years of age. Nothing in this section shall require a
23 health plan or a health insurance issuer described in the
24 preceding sentence to make coverage available for a child
25 of a child receiving dependent coverage.
19
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1 ‘‘(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall promul
2 gate regulations to define the dependents to which cov
3 erage shall be made available under subsection (a).
4 ‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec
5 tion shall be construed to modify the definition of ‘depend
6 ent’ as used in the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with
7 respect to the tax treatment of the cost of coverage.

I'm still unsure what makes a dependent

[Yavin4]

9. It Mean That If Your Kid Gets Coverage Through Your Plan

Then your kid still get coverage until they're 26 or if they get married.

However, if your kid has a kid, then your grandkid does not get covered.