As the U.S. Senate takes up the proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA), a three-state study provides evidence that eliminating the individual mandate could jeopardize young adults’ health care coverage — even with laws allowing people under 26 to be covered under their parents’ plan.

Researchers led by Lauren Wisk, PhD, of the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, analyzed insurance data from 131,542 adolescents and young adults whose family was covered by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care between January 2000 and December 2012.

Read more at https://vector.childrenshospital.org/2017/05/individual-mandate-boosts-c...