By Daniel J. Flynn
Slightly under a quarter of the 2.2 million Obamacare enrollees are between 18 and 34. More than half are between 45 and 64. One needn’t be a doctor, or a mathematician, to grasp the negative implications for rates within the insurance exchanges.
An Affordable Care Act that infantilizes adults by enabling them to remain on their parents’ plans as though still children further infantilizes them in its marketing. The president banks on the stupidity of young people, the constituency that, save for African Americans, he most owes his power to. People sign up for government programs for subsidies, not to subsidize.
The inability to convince young Americans to bankroll older, wealthier Americans through Obamacare as they already do through Social Security has set the administration and its boosters into panic mode.
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