Posted on 08/28/2009 5:01:26 PM PDT by Libloather
Health Reform: Let's Lower—Not Raise—Young Adults' Premiums
By Bernadine Healy, M.D.
August 26, 2009 03:50 PM ET
People under age 36 form the dominant component of America's 45 million uninsured. Among them, the ages most lacking in health insurance are those in their 20s. You and I know them: They are just out of school, in entry-level or part-time jobs, or between jobs. They are usually blessed with good health, however much they may take it for granted. And they are relatively inexpensive healthwise, compared with those over 60 (by a factor of five or more), because they are spared age-related chronic diseases that consume most of the healthcare dollar, like atherosclerosis clogging arteries of the heart and other organs, degenerating bones and brains, and the vast majority of cancers. Young people have less expensive needs: preventive and primary care and assurance that they will be covered if they do encounter that infrequent, costly, unexpected catastrophic health event.
Under current health reform proposals in Congress, this group will be forced to buy health insurance—at prices that will be vastly inflated over the ones now available to them. That's because they will be obliged to buy the same basic comprehensive, federally chosen benefits package that older people would buy and pay premiums that cannot be less than half of the highest premium the pre-Medicare person owes. The higher premiums borne by the young, which would be $4,000 or more (policies can be found now for as little as $500 or $600 yearly) are intended to contribute to the health coverage of their elders. But they would force many young people, even those currently insured, to take government subsidies.
The twentysomethings are a unique subset of the uninsured. Consider five facts about them...
(Excerpt) Read more at health.usnews.com ...
Don't care. Get a job and start paying. Oh, and I'll need all my Sosha Security so pay some more.
It’s about time people started talking about this.
Where do the $4,000 premiums go - in a lock box?
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