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[BullNBear52]

One of the advantages of the ACA is that we can carry our son on my wife's health plan while he is in college.

Before the Affordable Care Act, many health plans and issuers could remove adult children from their parents' coverage because of their age, whether or not they were a student or where they lived. The Affordable Care Act requires plans and issuers that offer dependent child coverage to make the coverage available until the adult child reaches the age of 26. Many parents and their children who worried about losing health coverage after they graduated from college no longer have to worry.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ebsa/about-ebsa/our-activities/resource-center/faqs/young-adult-and-aca

His college insists that he have health insurance otherwise they offered a cheap plan for $1100 a year which has a high deductible. He is also covered for vision and dental. The vision is a must since he is blind as a bat.