Posted on 01/27/2014 2:46:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama is making a sudden push to win back millennial voters, who have grown disillusioned over his failed “Hope and Change” campaign that left them without jobs, living in their parents’ basement.
Even though he has run his last race, the president needs the 18-to-34 age group to make his signature Obamacare policy work. Without them, the whole system falls apart — not tomorrow, today, right now, before the radical reform of U.S. health care can even get off the ground.
Just how bad is it? Just 24 percent of the new enrollees to Obamacare are between 18 and 34. The entire plan was predicated on a sign-up rate of nearly 40 percent, the idea being that healthy young people will pay more — much more — than they once did to offset the unhealthy elderly signing up for Obamacare.
In some states, the sign-up rate for millennials is abysmal: Arizona and West Virginia saw just 17 percent of the age group enroll. The White House, of course, predicts that number will grow as the deadline to sign up nears at the end of March (if you’ve got a millennial kid, you know they only do things at the last minute).
But the situation is far worse than just flagging enrollment of Obamacare, and the president knows it...
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Re premiums on 18 -26 year-olds staying on plan:
The premium CAN be very high. For example, in Massachusetts, I was told there are three plan prices for a given type of plan (Bronze, Silver, etc): Single, Couple, or “Family.”
The family plans are significantly more expensive than the couple plan—like 35 or 40%. However, the family cost is the same whether there is one kid or ten kids on it. So, if the choice is about keeping the last kid on the plan, or dropping back to couples coverage, it’s an expensive no-go. I found that with three young adults, everyone was better off if they bought their own insurance than if I kept them on a family plan.
Now, with the increased costs piled on the young through the ACA, that might not be true for 3 kids, but it is probably still true for 2, and certainly for one.
Someone 18 years old don’t associate Bush to anything so Zero’s abilty to blame him is zero.
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