Obama can keep the youth vote — by repealing ObamaCare
The Obamacare individual mandate essentially targets my age group – 18- to 29-year-olds – to flood health insurance pools with low-risk premiums to bring costs down for everyone else. The young and healthy must subsidize the old and sick by buying plans they may not need.
Young professionals with entry-level salaries, many of whom are not yet covered by their employers, will be forced to buy costly insurance or face a fee totaling up to 2.5 percent of their income. As someone entering the job market, I will soon be hit by this added cost right when I’m trying to establish a financial base. I won’t qualify for federal assistance, and rather than making insurance more affordable, the health care law requires young people like me to incur even more costly premiums.
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Aw, the heartbreak of the youth vote.
John the Libertarian on January 20, 2011 at 5:40 PM
As long as the youth keep going to college, they will keep voting Democrat.
WisCon on January 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM
Did he not get the memo? The youth need to transfer their income to those that had 30 to 40 years to accumulate wealth. What a whiner.
WashJeff on January 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM
You bought it…
toenail on January 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM
He didn’t get the memo. The deal is that the young are taxed to create a huge new government bureaucracy, and then their premiums are reduced by denying old people medical care.
Win, win!!!
Realist on January 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM
Where does this guy get off, thinking he can keep his own money? The very idea!/Obama.
OldEnglish on January 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM
A while back I read a letter from a worker in a Nazi factory, telling his “Beloved Fuhrer” about all the harsh conditions there.
There wasn’t a doubt in the guy’s mind that Hitler just didn’t know what was going on, and that he would fix this little flaw in his system once he found out about it.
And, of course, Hitler did. He had the guy taken out and shot.
logis on January 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Yet most in his generation will not read this.
jawkneemusic on January 20, 2011 at 7:07 PM
How many 26 year old youths were polled?
rogerb on January 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM
Welcome to the real world bud. Been paying full bore premiums all my adult life, maybe you will have to not get the newest ipad when it comes out. Where is Rush’s little kid voice when I need it.
wi farmgirl on January 20, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Or as long as we keep letting the left run the colleges they will keep voting for the Dems.
wi farmgirl on January 20, 2011 at 8:07 PM
These young people are brain dead. What will he do next? They don’t think that far ahead. If only he would stop stealing from me, I will vote for him again. This is what happens when you send your kids off to these rip off, politically correct, indoctrination facilities without having instilled them with the ability to think.
Basilsbest on January 20, 2011 at 8:42 PM