First Lady Says Obamacare Needed to “Save Young People from Their Own Stupidity”

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 22 Feb 2014 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

In an interview on the Tonight Show, Michelle Obama unveiled the latest effort of the Administration to induce young and healthy adults to sign up for health insurance by pointing out how stupid this target cohort is.

“If you look at how young people behave it’s clear that the vast majority of them are knuckleheads,” she asserted. “They can’t be trusted to do this simplest tasks—like making a sandwich—without hurting themselves. Their choices for leisure activities are typically dangerous and irresponsible—you know, smoking dope, getting drunk and then getting behind the steering wheel of a car. We’re trying to get the message to these youngsters that they need the insurance the Affordable Care Act requires them to buy.”

Michelle admitted that “the low enrollment rates for this group are a cause for concern. In hindsight, our expectation that these folks could be compelled to sign up of their own volition under threat of a penalty was probably overly optimistic. Educating them about their responsibility is a difficult and likely hopeless undertaking. We really need to find some way of making the sign-ups and the extraction of fees automatic.”

Perhaps, though, these young adults aren’t as clueless as the Administration thinks. True enough, they voted overwhelmingly for Obama. On the other hand, in a recent study, researchers from the Stanford University of Medicine found that among those suffering traumatic injuries, uninsured patients get better care than those who are insured. It seems that those with insurance are routed to hospitals on their plan while those without insurance are taken to the nearest trauma center.

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

http://azconservative.org/2014/02/22/fcc-chairman-says-critics-are-overreacting-to-new-plan/

[LibLieSlayer]

We ALL need to be saved from your and your husbands stupidity!

[Covenantor]

When reality is beyond satire.

"If you look at how young people behave it's clear that the vast majority of them are knuckleheads," she asserted.

"They can't be trusted to do this simplest tasks like making a sandwich without hurting themselves."

"Their choices for leisure activities are typically dangerous and irresponsible,you know, smoking dope, getting drunk and then getting behind the steering wheel of a car."

Michelle Obama

[Buckeye McFrog]

Best way to save young people from their own stupidity:

Raise the Voting Age to 35.

[HangnJudge]

If you look at how young people behave it’s clear that the vast majority of them are knuckleheads,” she asserted. “They can’t be trusted to do this simplest tasks—like making a sandwich—without hurting themselves. Their choices for leisure activities are typically dangerous and irresponsible—you know, smoking dope, getting drunk and then getting behind the steering wheel of a car. We’re trying to get the message to these youngsters that they need the insurance the Affordable Care Act requires them to buy.

Ok, I bite

If they are too stupid to attend to simple tasks,
Why are they Voting?

/Rhetorical Question

[Secret Agent Man]

but who will save us from mooch’ and barrycades’ stupidity?

[RatRipper]

If we REALLY want to save young people from their own stupidity, we need to revoke their voter registration.

[ronnie raygun]

This coming from a dumb a##

[GeronL]

is the the same first lady who was twerking on TV the other day?

[ExCTCitizen]

Ms Obama, young people are stupid? As my smart teens would say, you have the IQ of a Gnat.

[Rocky]

Who is going to save us from Obama’s stupidity?

[Delta Dawn]

With almost no one realizing that this is satire, I might have to start selling volcano insurance. There might be a future in it after all...