As the October launch of the state health insurance marketplaces approaches, parents have many questions about covering their children. Q. Why is it that the adult children of retired members of the military cannot stay on their parents' insurance? My husband served for 22 years in the Marine Corps. My adult children are still in college, but they have been dropped from our insurance, Tricare Prime. A. The Affordable Care Act allows adult children to stay on their parents' health plan until they reach age 26 in most cases. But Tricare, the health plan for military service members, is governed by a different set of statutes, and the ACA's provisions that expand...
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