This might not come as news to you, but younger adults are flocking to their parents' health plans at a record clip this year.

The health care law provision that allows anyone under 26 to stay on their parents' health plans is driving these raging enrollment numbers, according to Kaiser Health News.

Wellpoint, for example, reported the expanded dependent provision accounting for adding a whopping 280,000 new members in the first quarter. That demographic accounted for a third of its total new enrollment.

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