Deceiving the Young – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine

Deceiving the Young – by Rich Trzupek | FrontPage Magazine: "The self-styled “non-partisan” website Rock the Vote recently chimed in on the health care debate, with a video that urges young women to avoid engaging in sexual intercourse with any lad who fails to support Obamacare. Actors Eva Amurri (“Californication”) and Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights”) delivered the pitch in a two-minute short.

At one point in the video, Gilford declares:

“Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine are the most uninsured group in the country.”

The implication is that the health care bill will solve this supposed inequity. In fact, as many observers have noted, the result is likely to be the opposite. The health care bill creates an incentive for more young Americans to stay uninsured, by removing the free-market constraints that would force them to consider risk. Obamacare would thus push the costs of health care even higher. It’s a bill that appears designed to paralyze the system and to drive up premiums so dramatically that the “public option” will become the only viable option.

Both the House and Senate versions of the bill provide for a tax of up to $750 per person to be levied against anyone who fails to purchase insurance. As anyone who has purchased insurance knows, this is much less than the annual cost of insurance premiums for even modest coverage. Another provision of the bill says that no one can be denied coverage due to a pre-existing condition. Combined, these two provisions create a tempting incentive for many healthy young people to avoid paying for insurance until they absolutely need it. Healthy young people are obviously much less likely to need insurance than their older fellow citizens, so why bother to pay for coverage until one actually needs it?"