Anyone, and I mean anyone with one iota of commons sense
knew from the word go that O-care would not work. You could go into all the complexities
of the law and extract this and that but the bottom line is simple: if you
increase demand without increasing supply, costs will go up. The question is
for who? Well that’s easy silly- the young of course:
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito pointed out during
last year's Supreme Court argument on ObamaCare that young, healthy adults
today spend an average of $854 a year on health care. ObamaCare would require
them to buy insurance policies expected to cost roughly $5,800. The law, then,
isn't just asking them to pay for "the services that they are going to
consume," he continued. "The mandate is forcing these people to
provide a huge subsidy to the insurance companies [so they, in turn could] subsidize
services that will be received by somebody else."
So the question is - once the young healthier folks realize
that they are paying around $5,000/year more for someone else to have a sex
change operation or paying for contraceptives
not to mention abortions,
how many will still sign up for it? My guess is not too many. In fact I think,
once the young realize just how thoroughly they’re screwed by this law, they
will not be happy.
If the GOP were serious about taking the senate and keeping
the house they need to go high wide and handsome with this message directly targeting
these younger voters.
Update: No sooner than I publish this post than I ran across this:
And that's before O-Care really gets going too. Just think what those numbers will be a year from now when these kids have to pay $5,800!
Update: No sooner than I publish this post than I ran across this:
About one in four Americans ages 18-30 say they “don’t really need” health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. About 35 percent are unwilling to say it’s “worth the money it costs.”
And that's before O-Care really gets going too. Just think what those numbers will be a year from now when these kids have to pay $5,800!
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