MoveOn admits: “[I]f younger, healthier people don’t participate, then costs will skyrocket and Obamacare will fail.”

by Myron Ebell on August 30, 2013 · 0 comments

[R]ight-wing groups have launched a multi-million-dollar campaign to torpedo Obamacare before it even gets started. Their plan: Mislead young people about how the law works so they get scared and don’t enroll. The problem is that it really could work because if younger, healthier people don’t participate, then costs will skyrocket and Obamacare will fail.

MoveOn.org footnotes a Washington Post article, which explains that last sentence. From the Post Wonkblog article by Sarah Kliff: “Young adults tend to have lower medical bills, which would hold down premiums for the entire insurance market. If only the sick and elderly sign up, health costs would skyrocket.”.....To Read More......

My Take - Pelosi insisted that Obamacare be passed as soon as possible in order that we could see what was in it.  This must be one the things Pelosi was anxious to see.  Pelosi has consistently shown that she earned her position as a executive officer in the Club For the Galacticly Stupid.  Congratulations Nancy!