Thursday, October 22, 2020

Axing the ACA means young adults with cancer lose coverage


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/uoc--ata102020.php

News Release 22-Oct-2020
University of California - San Francisco

A new study led by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) has quantified the impact of repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) for 18 to 25-year-old cancer patients, who are covered by their parents' health insurance.

In the study, which publishes in JCO Oncology Practice on Oct. 22, 2020, researchers found that patients with a pediatric cancer who were protected under the ACA's dependent coverage provision were more likely to remain on private insurance for longer durations compared to their older peers who turned 19 before the Act.


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