Soon after moving to Utah this summer, Rainbow Sky Buck ended up at the hospital with a painful ear infection. There, Buck learned she no longer had access to the free health coverage she had in California as a former foster youth.
To pay for the care, Buck emptied out her bank account and borrowed money. “Luckily, I got my antibiotics and I am okay now,” she said. “But what is going to happen next time?”
Under the health law, young adults who age of out of the foster care system are eligible for free Medicaid coverage until they turn 26. The provision was an attempt to give them the same opportunity as other young people who can stay on their parents’ insurance until their 26th birthday.
[For more of this story, written by Anna Gorman, go to http://khn.org/news/for-former...ean-losing-medicaid/]
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