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Health-care reform and kids’ health

  1. Insurance for young adults. Keeping kids on a parent's health-insurance policy until they're 26 years old – a benefit that about 2.5 million young people are now using. (Before, most kids got kicked off at age 18.)

  2. A bigger menu of preventive care services. Kids covered under new health plans are eligible for many wellness tests and services without extra charges – including vision screenings, vaccines, hearing tests, fluoride supplements (if your tap water is un-fluoridated), and much more. And under the ACA, pregnancy and newborn care as well as dental and vision coverage would be covered in new plans starting in 2014.

  3. No limit on lifetime care.  More than 1 million Pennsylvania kids are benefiting in one way or another from the reform law's removal of lifetime limits on care, according to Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children.