About two weeks ago, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) announced his impending retirement. As usual, when left-wing politicians have no more elections to win, they start admitting the kinds of things they would never utter if they had to please their kooky base. For Moran, leaving the political stage means it's time to drop a little truth on the President's signature law.
According to the Representative, ObamaCare is never going to work. Young people simply aren't signing up. Furthermore, they're not going to sign up and they have legitimate reasons not to.
“I’m afraid that the millennials, if you will, are less likely to sign up. I think they feel more independent, I think they feel a little more invulnerable than prior generations,” Moran says. “But I don’t think we’re going to get enough young people signing up to make this bill work as it was intended to financially.”
If Moran’s prediction is correct, the whole law could unravel. He says there just isn’t enough incentive for healthy young people to sign up for insurance.
“And, frankly, there’s some legitimacy to their concern because the government spends about $7 for the elderly for every $1 it spends on the young,” Moran says.
Moran made the comments during a recent interview with American University Radio.
What's interesting is that, by blaming some sort of nebulous 'invincibility complex,' he's avoiding all of the legitimate problems with the law.
He stays away from the fact that it's cancelling policies and replacing them with more expensive ones.
He also fails to mention the fact that the more expensive new plans will likely cost far more than the average millennial would spend on health care if they had to foot the doctor bill themselves.
Perhaps most glaringly, he ignores the obvious problem that, if young people were previously unwilling to buy insurance because it was too pricy, they're certainly not going to opt-in now that the Dems have made the plans even more expensive. This is especially true since the ACA allows 'children' to stay on their parent's insurance until they're 26.
Moran went on to claim that Democrats have absolutely no idea how to fix this mess.
"I just don't know how we're going to do it frankly," he says. "If we had a solution I'd be telling the president right now."
Frankly, while the admission of the law's impending collapse might be a rare glimmer of honesty, this last bit is the same phony posturing we always get from big government Dems. They know exactly what solution they want. Barack Obama and Harry Reid have both admitted it on multiple occasions.
Single payer is, and always was, the statist goal. ObamaCare's implosion is just the next step in their plan.
