Under the Affordable Care Act, former foster care youth are eligible for free health care. The program requires states to provide youth under 26 with free health care if they were in foster care at the age of 18. Like normal youth that can stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26, former foster youth can access the health care services they need.
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Affordable Care Act offers free health care to foster care youth
|Under the Affordable Care Act, former foster care youth are eligible for free health care. The program requires states to provide youth under 26 with free health care if they were in foster care at the age of 18. Like normal youth that can stay on their parents’ insurance until they are 26, former foster youth can access the health care services they need.