so apparently at 26, you're still considered a child

[surfsatwerk]

Soon as they reach sexually maturity drop them off in the desert with a canteen of water and the clothes on their back.

 

[Patranus]

Just look at Obamacare and the cut off age it forces insurance companies to extend a parents coverage to their children.

I think Congress needs to reexamine the 26th amendment if we are not redefining a child as 26 and not 18.

 

[Turin39789]

Yeah it's pretty disgusting. I stopped considering myself a child when I turned 15 and got my first job. I might be immature and a moron, but a child I am not. But I could use my dads health insurance instead of my own for the next two months lol.

We stopped considering ourselves children at age 7 when we left for the agoge.

 

[nick1985]

Woohoo I am still a child for 2 more weeks!

same

 

[Dirigible]

How about we put this shit in P&N where it belongs?

 

[Golgatha]

Soon as they reach sexually maturity drop them off in the desert with a canteen of water and the clothes on their back.

You need to go further back. If they look even the least bit scrawny or deformed, or if they cry just a bit too long post birth, throw them immediately off a tall cliff.

THIS IS SPARTA!!!

 

[crownjules]

WTF is the OP using as a basis for his rant? That some 26 yo was tried as a delinquent for manslaughter or something? Society as a whole in this country says you are an adult at 18 yo, or 21 perhaps depending on what you are referring to exactly.

The health care reform bill, or Obamacare, stipulates that people younger than 26 are considered children so they can still get coverage under their parents' plan.

 

[shortylickens]

So because the OP says 26 year olds are considered children they are children?

Sounds like this is more about him than society. Wonder if he also happens to be 26.

 

[Matthiasa]

Funny story about that... most people below that age
A) don't normally cost insurance companies anything.
and
B) wouldn't have health insurance anyways unless forced onto them due to cost.

For the few that actually need it it helps, but for the vast majority of people it's doesn't really mean anything.

 

[FDF12389]

So because the OP says 26 year olds are considered children they are children?

Sounds like this is more about him than society. Wonder if he also happens to be 26.

youread?

 

[Turin39789]

Funny story about that... most people below that age
A) don't normally cost insurance companies anything.
and
B) wouldn't have health insurance anyways unless forced onto them due to cost.

For the few that actually need it it helps, but for the vast majority of people it's doesn't really mean anything.

This just in - low twenties do not engage in risky behavior!(automotive, disease, etc)

 

[Matthiasa]

If the costs they incur were high, more in that age group would of had insurance anyways.
Which as one should know very few in that age group had health insurance, unless it was forced on to them.

It's simple cost benefit analysis. Costs of it being high (for one paying for insurance) while actual benefits to oneself being minimal.

Which again for most people makes that change pointless, and is also why the cost of the change should really be minimal (per person with risks spread over a large group).

What you should really be complaining about, if so many weren't actually except form it, is that whole preexisting condition thing. That will cost far more then raising the age to cover a low risk group.

 

[AstroManLuca]

why do we continue to encourage young adults to act like children and not take personal responsibility?
how long will we have to hand hold and spoon feed this generation?
just another example of the pussification of america.

you didn't actually list an example in your post

you fucking fuckhead

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

Sure, in the sense that you are the offspring of your parents. Don't confuse the context.

yes, technically my 80 year old grandmother is a child too.

 

[Carmen813]

Just look at Obamacare and the cut off age it forces insurance companies to extend a parents coverage to their children.

I think Congress needs to reexamine the 26th amendment if we are not redefining a child as 26 and not 18.

It gives parents the option of continuing to cover their children until 26, it forces nothing. Most allow for children to be covered while in college full-time now. If you don't want to pay for your kids coverage you don't have to.

Giving young adults a chance to get their feet under them and not have their entire financial world implode if they get sick in their 20s...whouda thunk!

 

[sourceninja]

My brother in law recently got a DUI. He needed a loan to get his car out and pay his bond. Because he never pays anyone back, my step-father offered to loan him the money if he signed over the title to his car. If he pays him back he gets the title back, if not my step-father sells the car.

He actually screamed "That's not fair" over the phone at my step-father.

 

[mumkin]

I have a cousin who is 32 who still lives as home, has never moved out and is just a fat lazy mofo. Yeah.. I totally agree.

I have one who's almost 40 :|

 

[bfdd]

My brother in law recently got a DUI. He needed a loan to get his car out and pay his bond. Because he never pays anyone back, my step-father offered to loan him the money if he signed over the title to his car. If he pays him back he gets the title back, if not my step-father sells the car.

He actually screamed "That's not fair" over the phone at my step-father.

LOL seriously? I won't even ask my parents for anything, they already gave me everything I needed or at least pointed me in the right direction. Kind of sounds like my brother though everyones out to get him and blah blah blah nothing is ever his fault. I don't know where he got that mentality because my mom certainly didn't baby us.

 

[sourceninja]

LOL seriously? I won't even ask my parents for anything, they already gave me everything I needed or at least pointed me in the right direction. Kind of sounds like my brother though everyones out to get him and blah blah blah nothing is ever his fault. I don't know where he got that mentality because my mom certainly didn't baby us.

Yea, I'd never ask for help, especially if it was my own damn fault. He asked me and I told him to put his car up on craigs list and take it like a man.

 

[Gooberlx2]

yes, technically my 80 year old grandmother is a child too.

Indeed she is.

Honestly, if I'm an insurance carrier, then I'm not complaining. People in the 18 - 26 age range certainly aren't heavy users, and family insurance rates are a LOT higher than self and self+spouse coverage. It's like free money to them.

 

[cheezy321]

same

5 more months and I'll be an adult. I'm so cool

 

[Numenorean]

What the fuck are you even talking about?

 

[JulesMaximus]

I keep telling my 8 year old that he better figure out what he wants to do with his life soon because in a few years he's out!!!

 

[nick1985]

What the fuck are you even talking about?

obamacare