At least 2.5 million younger Americans now have health insurance as a result of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows adults to stay on their parents\u2019 health care plans until 26 years of age, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration is expected to release additional data later this afternoon:<\/p>\n
Using unpublished quarterly statistics from the government\u2019s ongoing National Health Interview Survey, analysts in Sebelius\u2019 policy office determined that nearly 36 percent of those age 19-25 were uninsured in the third calendar quarter of 2010, before the law\u2019s provision took effect. That translates to more than 10.5 million people.<\/p>\n
By the second calendar quarter of 2011, the proportion of uninsured young adults had dropped to a little over 27 percent, or about 8 million people. The difference \u2014 nearly 2.5 million getting coverage \u2014 can only be the result of the health care law, administration officials said, because the number covered by public programs like Medicaid went down slightly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n