Stephanie
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tsk tsk, we TRIED to warn you
SNIP:
Young people reelected the president. Now they get to pay disproportionately for ObamaCare. posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:45pm EST
Ben Smith BuzzFeed Staff
President Obama talks with college students while waiting for an order of fries at OMG Burgers in Coral Gables, Florida last September. Image by C.W. Griffin/Miami Herald/MCT
President Obama's enemies often accuse him, in the starkest political terms, of crudely acting to shift resources toward his political base: green-energy donors, single women, Latinos, African-Americans.
But the next 12 months are likely to reveal the opposite. Imminent elements of Obama's grandest policy move, the health-care overhaul known as ObamaCare, are calculated to screw his most passionate supporters and to transfer wealth to his worst enemies.
The passionate supporters are the youth, who voted for him by a margin of 60% to 36%, according to exit poll samples of people 29 and under. His enemies are the elderly: Mitt Romney won 56% of the votes from people 65 and over.
And while one of ObamaCare's earliest provisions was a boon to the young, allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance through the age of 26, what follows may come as an unpleasant surprise to many of the president's supporters. The provisions required to make any kind of health insurance plan work not just ObamaCare, but really any plan of its sort require healthy young people to pay more in health insurance than they consume in services, while the elderly (saved by Sarah "Death Panels" Palin from any serious attempt to ration expensive and often futile end-of-life care) consume far more than they pay in. There is always a push and pull, however, and this year will be spent laying plans to shift the burden further toward the young.
all of it here
Obama Prepares To Screw His Base
SNIP:
Young people reelected the president. Now they get to pay disproportionately for ObamaCare. posted on February 10, 2013 at 10:45pm EST
Ben Smith BuzzFeed Staff
President Obama talks with college students while waiting for an order of fries at OMG Burgers in Coral Gables, Florida last September. Image by C.W. Griffin/Miami Herald/MCT
President Obama's enemies often accuse him, in the starkest political terms, of crudely acting to shift resources toward his political base: green-energy donors, single women, Latinos, African-Americans.
But the next 12 months are likely to reveal the opposite. Imminent elements of Obama's grandest policy move, the health-care overhaul known as ObamaCare, are calculated to screw his most passionate supporters and to transfer wealth to his worst enemies.
The passionate supporters are the youth, who voted for him by a margin of 60% to 36%, according to exit poll samples of people 29 and under. His enemies are the elderly: Mitt Romney won 56% of the votes from people 65 and over.
And while one of ObamaCare's earliest provisions was a boon to the young, allowing them to stay on their parents' insurance through the age of 26, what follows may come as an unpleasant surprise to many of the president's supporters. The provisions required to make any kind of health insurance plan work not just ObamaCare, but really any plan of its sort require healthy young people to pay more in health insurance than they consume in services, while the elderly (saved by Sarah "Death Panels" Palin from any serious attempt to ration expensive and often futile end-of-life care) consume far more than they pay in. There is always a push and pull, however, and this year will be spent laying plans to shift the burden further toward the young.
all of it here
Obama Prepares To Screw His Base
