I’m shocked there are that many.
“The inordinate number of 18-34-year-olds choosing silver plans suggests that the exchanges have attracted young and healthy people that are not that healthy.”
It says 25% of the PAYING enrollees are in that age group, and even they could be heavily subsidized (just not “free”).
Either they already have health problems, were pressured by family (”mom” .. per the ads) to sign up, or are heavily subsidized but will find out they are paying their premiums for nothing ... unless they are really sick and running up bills. If not sick and actually meeting deductibles, I suspect after a couple of months, they’ll quit paying ... especially the guys.