Young workers eager to learn what Obamacare can do for them

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130915/LIVEWELL26/130919134/1685#young-workers-eager-to-learn-what-obamacare-can-do-for-them

By Rick Ruggles / World-Herald staff writer
September 15, 2013

Young adults believe they are indestructible and don't need health insurance — or so people often say in discussions about Obamacare.

Surveys, statistics from major employers and interviews with people in their 20s and 30s, however, show that the majority of young adults enroll in workplace insurance. And if they don't have health insurance, the most likely reason is the expense.

Only about one in four young adults nationally understands what the federal health insurance overhaul might offer them, but interviews locally indicated interest in finding out.

Keaton Segura, a 21-year-old Omahan who works two jobs as a cook, has no health insurance, “mostly because I can't afford it right now.”

FULL story at link.

[NYC_SKP]

1. From Obamacare we need to move further to universal care.

We have to do this, our economy depends on it.

Damn, if I was an employer I would SO love to know that they're healthy, and covered, and I'm not paying for it.

That would truly be marvelous.

Obamacare is going to save me $700/month compared to COBRA.

K/R