{"id":19702,"date":"2013-12-10T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19702"},"modified":"2013-12-10T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:31:28","slug":"only-11-of-colorado%e2%80%99s-obamacare-exchange-enrollees-are-young-invincibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19702\/only-11-of-colorado%e2%80%99s-obamacare-exchange-enrollees-are-young-invincibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 11% of Colorado\u2019s Obamacare Exchange Enrollees are Young Invincibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/363816\/obamacares-bros-and-hoes-michelle-malkin\" target=\"_blank\">crass ad campaign<\/a> aimed at getting keg-standing frat boys and promiscuous coeds to sign up for health insurance on Colorado\u2019s Obamacare exchange is failing badly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House has set a goal of ensuring that roughly 40% of all enrollees on the federal exchange are young and healthy,\u201d reports <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/12\/09\/colorado-enrollment-spikes-but-age-may-be-a-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN\u2019s Political Ticker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of November 30, just 11% of total enrollees in Colorado\u2019s exchange fall into the targeted 18 to 34 age bracket. The majority of new enrollees \u2013 more than 60% \u2013 are between 45 and 65.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If this trend holds, it means that the funding ratios for Colorado\u2019s insurance pools won\u2019t work because there won\u2019t be enough \u2018young invincibles\u2019 in the system. As I explained in a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19671\/1-in-4-young-invincibles-plan-to-pay-obamacare-fine\/ \" target=\"_blank\">a similar problem in Kentucky<\/a>, too few young and healthy people translates into an insufficient wealth transfer to older and sicker people.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, Obamacare\u2019s supporters are telling themselves that young people always wait till the last minute to comply, so all will be well when the enrollment period ends in March. That might be true. But if enough young invincibles pay a fine instead of enroll, Colorado, Kentucky and any other state with too few net payers will see next year\u2019s premiums surge through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for the 2014 elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the crass ad campaign aimed at getting keg-standing frat boys and promiscuous coeds to sign up for health insurance on Colorado\u2019s Obamacare exchange is failing badly. \u201cThe White House has set a goal of ensuring that roughly 40% of all enrollees on the federal exchange are young and healthy,\u201d reports CNN\u2019s Political [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1064,3007,3308,1829,670,35],"class_list":["post-19702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-colorado","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-kentucky","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19706,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19702\/revisions\/19706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}