College Republicans Disappointed More Young People Are Insured Under HCR

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College Republicans Disappointed More Young People Are Insured Under Health Care Reform Law

As ThinkProgress has reported, the number of young people with health insurance has risen dramatically under President Obama’s health care reform law, thanks to a provision that allows them to stay on their parents’ plans until age 26. This is great news for the at least 1 million young adults who now have health insurance, but a blow to groups who rely on lambasting “Obamacare.” Steven Benen reports that College Republicans are disappointed by the progress, which has made their pitch to prospective members harder. After the GOP debate in Florida, a top College Republican official let slip that this issue has become a problem for the party on campus. “That’s an issue that on college campuses we battle every day as College Republicans and that we get questions about,” said CR National Co-Chairwoman Alex Smith.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/09/28/330898/college-republicans-disappointed-more-young-people-are-insured-under-obamas-health-care-reform-law/

A failing health care pitch to college students

By Steve Benen

There’s no real mystery here. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young adults between the ages of 19 and 25 can stay on their family’s plan, instead of being kicked off on their 18th birthday.

For most reasonable people, this is great news — more coverage for more Americans is clearly a positive development for everyone. But this progress has apparently made matters significantly worse for one group of people: College Republicans.

One of the measure’s simplest, and most swiftly implemented provisions, allows children to stay on their parents’ health care until they turn 26. And, as a top College Republican official let slip during a post-debate panel in a Google “hangout” promoted by Fox News last Thursday, that’s become a problem for the party on campus.

“That’s an issue that on college campuses we battle every day as College Republicans and that we get questions about,” said CR National Co-Chairwoman Alex Smith. “The candidate that will speak to specifics like that issue and others is going to be the candidate that will eventually prevail among the youth vote.”

College Republicans are in an unenviable position on this. A GOP activist is apparently supposed to tell a 20-year-old student, “You know that health insurance you currently enjoy? You should vote for Republicans who are determined to take it away from you, on purpose, as part of a pointless ideological crusade.”

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_09/a_failing_health_care_pitch_to032469.php#

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1. College Dems need to hammer this home...

this could really gain us some serious votes!

[saras]

3. What college Dems? You mean there are such things?

[HockeyMom]

2. When I was still living in NY I covered my husband who was

working and living in Florida for a small business and my college daughter in NY. It was $110 a month for all of us for PPO and everything from soup to nuts with no deductibles; medical, scripts, dental, eye. Top of the line PPO. My husband had insurance through his employer but mine was so much better so I covered him also. He DECLINED his employer insurance.

Sorry, people. ALL states are not equal.

[slipslidingaway]

4. Our daughter was covered under our policy while in college before the ACA ...

and was eligible until she was 23.

Steve Benen

"There’s no real mystery here. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, young adults between the ages of 19 and 25 can stay on their family’s plan, instead of being kicked off on their 18th birthday."

:shrug:


All ages combined more people were uninsured ... and as we all know insurance does not necessarily mean affordable care.

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2011/september/census-numbers-on-the-uninsured

"This Census report for 2010 shows that 919,000 more people were uninsured this past year than in 2009..."