Two years after measure’s implementation,proportion of women diagnosed with early-stage illness climbs, as does rate of treatment to preserve fertilityThe share of women who lose their fertility to cervical cancer in their early twenties appears to bear fallen due to a provision of the Affordable Care Act that allows young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance, or according to an early analysis of cancer data.
The findings offer a glimpse of the potential health impacts of allowing young people to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26. Shortly after the Affordable Care Act (also called Obamacare) went into effect,the percentage of insured Americans between the ages of 19 and 25 surged. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com