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If the rich don’t fund health care, young people will

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Carl Beijer
Mar 07, 2017
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During the debates leading up to the passage of Obamacare, Republicans settled in early November 2009 on a new messaging strategy: Obamacare exploited young Americans. Cato’s Aaron Yelowitz laid out the case: Obama’s health care bill

would drive premiums down for 55-year-olds but would drive them up for 25-year-olds – who are then implicitly subsidizing …

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