Health insurance and dependent child status

[milee30]

@thumper1

Pre-ACA, there were catastrophic polices for the under-30 crowd for less than a couple of hundred dollars a week

@milee30 is this a typo…should it be over month. A couple hundred dollars a week would be $800 a month or so.

My kid’s Pre ACA individual policies were about $250 a month. Now they are $325 a month (no subsidy). Since it’s been years since the ACA passed, I attribute a lot of that to inflation.

Yes, you’re right - typo. They were per month.

[AZ2019]

We are in the same boat. I thought all kids were dependents but insurance asked for tax records. Did you explain about kids having to be covered until the age of 26 and did they allow that?

[RichInPitt]

Deleted - missed that this was an ancient thread.