Is that what I said?
Before Obamacare, there were
many more uninsured young people. I would love to see evidence to the contrary. One of the biggest points of Obamacare was to get healthy people who didn't necessarily need (in their individual view) health insurance to buy health insurance. People in the 20s are healthier than later in life, there were many more uninsured 20-somethings before Obamacare.
It's one of the reasons Obamacare extended the ability to be on a parent's plan to 26.
They tried to bridge the gap of when people are likeliest to be uninsured. The costs are then certainly passed on to the plans, albeit small costs because people are very healthy in their early/mid twenties.
Then of course they created healthcare.gov to create an exchange in which people can buy subsidized health insurance because, well, younger people are poorer than people later in life and when paired with being healthier often opt to skip buy health care coverage. It's even worse as health care costs rise due to a larger percentage of older people in the country, and even worse than that when paired with stagnate wages for young people and
the prospect Millennials actually being poorer than their parents.
It's a series of corporate band-aids put together to patch a system designed to enrich the largest health care
"providers" buy forcing people to become their costumers while also likely squeezing out the smaller insurers.
I'm no Obamacare fan, as I hope I've shown over time, but it's not like the Republicans are offering jack shit here. And why would they? They can sit there and bash the program daily
without ever trying to fix anything./QUOTE]
Exactly what legislation do you think they could pass that Obama would sign that would correct the shortcomings of Obamacare?
