The Young and the ObamaCare-less – WSJ.com.
The Health and Human Services Department still won’t say how many people have enrolled in a plan by paying the premium. But even assuming an implausible 100% success rate, the exchanges are still well behind the original target of seven million, much less the 20 million or so necessary to ensure a viable insurance market.
This is a failure by President Obama’s own standard. About one of six Americans under age 65 lack insurance in the official statistics. So where are they? Either Democrats exaggerated the problem to pass the new entitlement. Or else individuals don’t think ObamaCare plans offer value, and they’re choosing to stay uninsured or buy insurance off the exchanges where the regulations are slightly looser.
It’s pretty interesting how the public’s definition of “value” changes once they have a medical condition.
