Becker's Healthcare October 8, 2024
Elizabeth Gregerson

Cancer survival among young adults has increased since the ACA’s Dependent Care Expansion passed in 2010, allowing Americans to stay on their parents’ health insurance plans until turning 26 years old, according to a study published Oct. 7 in Cancer.

Here are four things to know:

  1. Researchers from Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University analyzed data from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute to compare changes in cancer survival and mortality in specific age...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Insurance, Patient / Consumer, Provider, Survey / Study, Trends
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