Posted on 11/17/2009 8:45:11 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Conservatives are lining up some fine arguments against the strange health care beast being shepherded through Congress this season. Oddly, however, as the public as a whole turns against the Obama Administration on health care and other issues, the critics have neglected the young adult constituency that voted 66 percent for Mr. Obama last fall and are the least engaged now in the health care debate.
Move them and you will move the debate substantially. So far, the critics are not making the effort. They attack rationing, Medicate cuts that threaten seniors, lack of controls on tort excesses and much else. But they don't address the interest of the young.
Yet there is every reason that young voters should be anxious about the health care bill that recently passed the House, as well as the bills under consideration in the Senate. They stand to lose a bundle...
(Excerpt) Read more at discoverynews.org ...
When those 18 year old college freshmen start paying taxes, they may notice the CHANGE left in their paycheck stubs.
Yet there is every reason that young voters should be anxious about the health care bill that recently passed the House, as well as the bills under consideration in the Senate. They stand to lose a bundle.
Among other things, as papers from CATO (libertarian) and the Urban Institute (liberal) make clear, the House bill provides for “community rating” that will prohibit insurance companies from offering young people—who are almost always “low risk” so far as health is concerned— commensurately lower rates for health insurance. It doesn’t matter whether their health now is good, whether they eat right and don’t smoke and exercise regularly. Effectively, young people—unless they are poor and therefore subsidized—will see the price of health insurance skyrocket.
Moreover (here’s the kicker), under the “individual mandate” they will find they must buy such insurance. The new law requires it. They can even go to jail if they don’t.
In short, young people are going to be forced for the first time to have health insurance and, and unless they are the subsidized poor, they are going to pay through the nose for it. How popular can that be?
Popular enough, so long as the young people involved don’t know about it until it is too late. As is, young adults tend to think health care “reform” is just apple pie and Mom, something all good people should support. They haven’t bothered to learn about it. And no one is telling them. For example, if the Republican National Committee has any significant outreach to college students and other young adults on this topic, it is keeping the message secret.
Again: the highest level of support remaining for the Obama Administration and its health care bill(s) are young voters. If they desert, the bill’s base will be greatly weakened. So, why are they not being educated about the bill by its critics?
While HOPING for a job!
those young voters don’t give a flying damn about health care reform, and that is all anyone has heard from the administration for months. they voted for an illusion.
Pavlovian stimulus-response.
By less support from “dear old mom and dad”, I meant who’s gonna pay the insurance premiums they will be required to pay when they get dropped from Mom & Dad’s policy after schooling.
That’s the problem with the “Me” generation. Too much reliance on the wage earners (moms and dads). They need to be better educated on who is currently paying the bills and what happens when support is cut off. Obama doesn’t have anywhere near the “stash” to pick up the newly independents. Of course the MSM and community organizers who got them to throw away their votes didn’t tell them that...
This is an interesting article and probably very true. When discussing ways to inform those young, unsubsidized people I am reminded of the recent man in the street interview the guy from Fox News conducted.
Like all of the other interviews that have been conducted by people like Jay Leno and Sean Hannity, they revealed the same thing about those interviewed. Without exception they were politically brain dead. In the last one I think there were thirty people interviewed. They were young people.
They did not know who the vice-president is. They did not know who Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid are. I wish I had never heard of them either.) Every one of those young people knew chapter and verse about movie stars. Sadly, every one of them voted for Barack Obama.
They may well wind up having to buy health insurance. They may wind up living in a Socialist/Marxist, totalitarian nation. They may also be too dumb to care, even if critics of the health care beast attempt to inform them.
The young foolishly ignore the wisdom of their parents and grandparents.
AGREED! The young tend to be libertarian in this generation, and an Individual mandatew would tend to negate their freedom=mad at obamacare. Why nobody is pointing this is out is a mystery to me?.
She gets away with this because she attends college in Idaho which has a reciprocity agreement.
Were she to move back here to Pennsylvania, the same policy (plus the mandated lifestyle choices which she will never use and still must subsidize through her premiums) would cost her $125 per month.
It is no wonder young adults take chance with no coverage given these idiotic mandates.
Yep, same here. I have zero coverage whatsoever. My mom thinks it’s crazy but at 125 dollars a month? No way.
Remember the Liberal women a few years ago, with posters saying, "Outta my ____!" Well, they're really going to be screaming, "Outta my ____!" when Obamacare happens. If they think it's all just about abortion, they're sadly mistaken. Obamacare is going to be involved in every aspect of your personal medical history. Hope you enjoy it, since this is what you voted for.
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