When the "young and healthy" become the "old and infirm."

[Demo_Chris]

38. So you propose mandating the young and poor support the expenses of the old and wealthy?

After all, you suggest, one day they too might be old and wealthy and then they can get the young and poor to support them too!

You do understand that these young and healthy people you are so casually pilfering were basically screwed before this ever passed into law, right? We exported their jobs because it was fantastic for our 401K's, we ran the cost of education into the stratosphere so they're either uneducated or buried in debt, we're handing them a 20 TRILLION dollar national debt because we didn't feel like paying taxes, they're living at home drowning in bills and working at Walmart and Target or the corner gas station, and you think THEY are the ones who should eagerly sacrifice their last $50 so your healthcare costs can be a smidge lower?

Seriously?

And if they get sick, what then? You think they are saving up a multi-thousand deductible on their part-time job at Starbucks? And if they have kids of their own, what about them? Maybe their kids should go without heat or clothes or Christmas, because fuck them -- paying that mandate is more important than some silly holiday anyway. They better pay, you need their money to keep your rates affordable!

Right?

Because that's what you're saying. You want their money. They don't have any to spare, they're the most fucked generation in our nation's history, but that's okay. You want their money. The insurance companies want their money. And that's the only thing that matters.