A group of Democratic lawmakers are proposing to enshrine a key component of the Affordable Care Act into state law in order to protect it in the event the ACA is ever overturned or rolled back by the federal government. Reps. Eddie Day Pashinski (D-Luzerne), Tarik Khan (D-Philadelphia), and Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) say their proposed legislation would require that family insurance coverage allow adult children to remain on their parents’ health coverage until they turn 26. “While current Pennsylvania law allows employers to cover an employee’s adult children until age 30, not many employers take advantage of this option. Thus, if the Affordable Care Act is ever struck down, many adult children will lose their health insurance coverage, and we may see another market spiral,” according to the cosponsor memo they released last week. “That is unacceptable and can be prevented by incorporating this key Affordable Care Act protection into state law.”
