ObamaCare and youth membership: Getting them into the program is a huge problem; keeping them in is an even bigger problem.

Michelle Obama:    “. . . . there’s somebody in your life, a young person in particular, who thinks ‘Nah, I don’t need it, I don’t want to spend that money,’ you got to shake them and make them understand that this isn’t a joke.”

Editor’s notes:  The Administration has two problems:  One,  getting young people into the program.  Currently,  they have failed in this effort and failed miserably.    While theFeds claim that 3.5 million are in the program as stay-at-home college aged youth,  the fact of the matter is this:  3.5 million families with college aged,  stay-at-home youth, have not enrolled in the program.  These young people,  the under 26 year old crowd, cannot sign up for ObamaCare apart the enrollment of their entire families into this idiot’s healthcare program. 

Of course,  it will take a congressional investigation with teeth,  to find out how many folks have actually purchased healthcare plans.  There is no reason to trust Obama as to his claims that 3.5 million youth are in the exchanges in addition to another 6 million Medicaid enrollees.  Think about it:  3.5 million youth would mean the enrollment of close to 10 million paying customers in those 3.5 million families,  plus a supposed 6 million folks Obama claims are now,  in the Medicaid insurance program.  If you can add,  we are looking at a claimed, 16 million Americans,  "already" signed into ObamaCare.  The problem,  of course,  is the fact that absolutely no one,  whether Democrat or Republican,  is making this claim.  Maybe Obama is back on crack.  He certainly is not telling the truth on this point. 

A second problem facing the Administration,  when it comes to youth enrollment,  is found in the problematic issue of long term enrollment.   The retention rate of these new young enrollees,  certainly will be considerably less than 100%.  Getting them in and keeping them in,  are two very different assignments.  Imagine,  the Administration is currently enrolling less than half the numbers of youth as needed.  The problem will only increase when these folks decided to stop paying.  

The fact of Michelle Obama's statement,  above,  implies a very high degree of urgency,  means the goals of this Administration,  as regards youth enrollment,  have not been met.  Her concern,  "tell them this is no joke,"  belies the reality that young adults are signing up in the numbers necessary  to make this program work.  

Sadly,  because of this Administration's willingness to lie,  ObamaCare will have to fail in the most convincing of terms,  before Washington admits that the law,  as written,  needs to cancelled out.  We need healthcare reform.  But ObamaCare is not healthcare reform as promised.  We were sold a bill of goods, and by that I mean,  we were given the price tag, a "bill for goods,"   with nothing of substance in return.   If you make more than $50,000 per year,  your monthly premiums will double and triple and your annual deductibles will be  $6, 000 and 20,000 per year  -  money you have to spend before you begin using your insurance.  

If the Administration loses the healthy,  youth population,  all of the above,  monthly premiums and annual deductibles,  will only increase all the more.