The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, requires that group health plans and insurers make dependent coverage available for children until they attain the age of 26, regardless of tax or student status, or dependent status as it relates to financial...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) enacted March 23, 2010, and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA) enacted March 30, 2010, require that group health plans and insurers make dependent coverage available for children until they attain the age of 26...

Between 1994 and 1997 the percentage of children covered by an employment-based health plan increased from 58.1 percent to 59.7 percent, after years of a steady erosion in coverage. As a result of the increase in the percentage of children with employment-based coverage and population growth,...

Policymakers and interest groups are becoming increasingly concerned about the health insurance status of children. Between 1987 and 1995, the percentage of children under age 18 with employment-based health insurance declined from 66.7 percent to 58.6 percent. During the same period, the...

The number of nonelderly Americans without any form of health insurance increased by 1.1 million individuals — from 39.8 million to 40.9 million — between 1992 and 1993, according to Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) analysis of the March 1992 and March 1993 supplements to the...