Conservative
Type 40
from a physician who is a senior fellow at liberal Stanford University...
Where's The Outrage From Young Americans About Obama's Health Reforms? - Forbes
Where's The Outrage From Young Americans About Obama's Health Reforms? - Forbes
The under-appreciated truth is that the ACA has serious adverse impacts on young Americans, far more significant and longer lasting than temporary eligibility to remain on a parents insurance.
detailes on the bullet points available at the linked site.
- Health insurance costs are now dramatically shifted onto the backs of younger, healthier adults.
- Young adults will now have less access to lower cost health insurance coverage, limited more than ever by government-defined essential benefits, actuarial requirements, and other regulations.
- The ACA burdens employers, reduces jobs, and causes employers to drop the health insurance benefit, consequences that should be of particular concern to young adults right now, when young graduates already find it difficult to gain employment.
- The ACA increases taxes that threaten medical technology innovation, of greatest significance to younger Americans, who want jobs in that sector now and who will depend on access to future advances for decades to come.
- With its coverage mandates, guaranteed issue and community rating edicts, and price controls, the ACA threatens the overall sustainability of private insurance.
- The health law is emblematic of this administrations policies on entitlements, from which Americas younger generation will necessarily bear the financial burden of seniors far more than ever from in the greatest intergenerational transfer in history.