Coverage for Young Adults: Abby Care
Featuring people like Abby, who are helped by the under 26 provision, MyCare is an initiative to educate Americans about new programs, benefits, and rights under the health care law.
Abby-Care: Young Adult Coverage
Abby S: Without the Affordable Care Act my life would be very uncertain, and very scary.
My name is Abby; I’m 20 years old, and I’m a student at the University of Minnesota. I was born with a rare congenital disease called Toxoplasmosis; it’s a parasitic disease, and one of the many side effects is extra cerebral spinal fluid on your brain. At ten months old I had the same sized head that I do now. At which point they implant a shunt that drains the fluid from your brain, and since then I’ve had four shunt replacement surgeries.
When I was seventeen, I started to lose my vision in my left eye, and I almost lost all of my sight completely in my left eye. Usually vision is the first sign that something’s going wrong. I need to have preventative care in order to take care of myself; otherwise the ramifications could be terrible.
And there’s no cure at this point. It’s going to be the rest of my life.
My whole life I’ve been covered by health insurance thanks to my parents and my family helping to pitch in and pay for those premiums, so I’ve been very lucky, and I have always had excellent health care.
However, there was a point before the Affordable Care Act was passed; I was very concerned about my future and whether I’d be able to access care.
I found out about the provision in the Affordable Care Act that I can stay on my parents’ plan until I was twenty-six immediately; that was one of the most important things in the law and one of the most powerful things for me in my life.
Kathryn F: There’s things I can’t do about the future, but this has really helped her future.
Abby S: Given that the Affordable Care Act has passed into law, I have a world available to me.
You can’t guess what life will toss at you.
Even if you don’t have a health issue now like I do, that’s uncertain, and everybody deserves a chance at happiness and a healthy life.
The health care law is about people like me – it’s Abby-care.
NOTE: The transcript for this program may have been compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.
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