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But you’re in trouble if you were counting on Democrat promises coming true. Democrats constantly tout the immediate benefits of their government-run health care experiment, and chief among them is allowing young adults to stay on their parents’ plans after graduating from college. Here’s Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY):

Then, at the same time, the positives are going to start weighing in… If you're up to 26 years old you can stay on your parents' health coverage. My daughter is graduating from law school. We told her the day after she graduates she's on her own. She has a job in September, but she was fretting what does she do for the four months? Does she buy health insurance for $1200 a month? Well, she called me up at midnight after the bill passed and said, “Dad, I'm covered.”

Good for her that the Schumer family doesn’t get its insurance through Congress, or she’d be out of luck. Democrats have been asserting that their government-run health care experiment would let adults under the age of 26 stay on their parent’s plans. But the law doesn’t have that provision begin until 2011. Most private insurers voluntarily went above and beyond the letter of the law, and will start their coverage sooner. But the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), which provides health insurance for Congressmen, their staff, and the rest of the federal workforce, will not be covering young adult children until 2011. And the situation is even worse for military families.  TRICARE, the insurance program for the military, is not included in this provision of ObamaCare and will require new legislation to allow our brave men and women in uniform to keep their adult children on their plans. This is another example of how the $2.5 trillion bill was rushed through without proper care or thoughts to the unintended consequences.