The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively, the "Affordable Care Act") require group health plans and insurers that provide dependent coverage to extend health care coverage to adult children until they reach age 26.
Extension of group health plan coverage to adult children
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