Young invincibles get reality slap and sticker shock, don’t enroll, pay penelty, and whole Obamacare business model collapses.
(I use term “business model” VERY loosly).
Now they really have a good reason to Hope for Change
My biggest complaint is that the first year penalty is so low. Let’s move them right to a 2.5% income penalty, then watch heads explode!
Maybe Boehner should offer that as a compromise: we agree to fund Obamacare for 1 year, BUT you must move to the largest penalties RIGHT AWAY so people really understand what they are getting into.
The repeal movement would pick up steam and Dems would take a beating in elections. Of course the press would claim the penalty increase was solely the fault of the Republicans...
Hence the reason the Dems were so demanding that people sign up or pay a penalty (tax). One way or another, the Dems were going to get the money to spend, spend, spend somehow.
Not only CAN this premium spiral happen-but it WILL happen!
The authors also forget that the young tend to be either fall into 3 categories:
1) Libertarian/Conservative (these people will say F-U big government telling them what to do. I DO fall into this crowd).
2) Liberal/Left wing (die hard brainwashed idiots that will believe whatever the MSM, their liberal professors, and Holly-wood/Music Industry tell them).
3) Low information that don’t pay attention to politics and don’t care (or have priorities that do not include worrying about government/the news). They aren’t going to comply because they aren’t proactive enough to even care.
May I add that even some (or maybe a good portion) of the left wing/liberal population may not sign up because of “sticker shock”..!
When you vote for Hopey-Changey that’s what you get.
The public sector fiscal model is grounded on massive sucking up of the productive output of the young. Who are going to be left will massive bills for a party they weren’t even invited to.
Anyone who thinks they are going to just sit back and take it is dreaming.