How health reform could affect 'young invincibles'

In this Kaiser Health News story, produced in collaboration with USA Today, KHN staff writer Phil Galewitz writes about how the so-called young invincibles would be impacted by pending health reform proposals. Under the health bills being debated in Congress, young adults would be required to buy insurance - but they could buy low-cost "catastrophic" plans, requiring high deductibles. That's igniting a fierce debate whether young adults — sometimes known as the "young invincibles" — would benefit from such plans (Galewitz, 3/8). Read entire article.


Kaiser Health NewsThis article was reprinted from khn.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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