Big Gains for Young People in Health Law New York Times
He endured three days of exercise regimens, blood tests and blood pressure checks before he was accepted to the healthy comparison group in the trial. “So I knew I was healthy,” he said.
But when Mr. Heininger, 24, developed a high fever in March after traveling to Haiti on a relief mission, free care was not so easy to come by. So like many young people, he waited it out, worrying for almost a week that he might have picked up a dangerous tropical disease.
He is not unusual. Almost one-third of the 46 million uninsured in the United States are 19 to 29 — the age group that is the most likely to be without coverage, since so many work in part-time or entry-level jobs.
This group stands to reap substantial benefits from the health care act’s expansion of coverage. According to a report last week from the Commonwealth Fund , a private foundation that focuses on health policy, most of the 13.7 million young adults who are uninsured could gain coverage when the act goes into full force in 2014 — either through public programs like Medicaid or by buying private policies on competitive insurance exchanges established by the law.
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