WISPIRG highlights how new federal health care law affects young people

Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group held a press conference yesterday highlighting how the new federal health care law will affect young people, particularly students, as part of the group's Health Care Day of Action.

Wisconsin State Representative Kelda Helen Roys, Wisconsin State Senator and Chair of the Senate Health Committee John Erpenbach, and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Director Robert Craig spoke about how the new law directly and positively affects students.

As of yesterday, when parts of the law went into effect, a projected 14,700 young adults in Wisconsin will be allowed to remain on their parents' health insurance plans until age 26.

"With outrageous student loans, the last thing students should have to worry about are health care debts upon graduation," said Gardner.

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