Obamacare Champions Make Last-Ditch Appeal to the Under-35 Crowd
- ‘I’m trying not to get sick,’ says 23-year-old uninsured woman
- Trump, Republicans will decide fate of Affordable Care Act
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Two months before President-elect Donald Trump begins his attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration and its allies are making an aggressive final push to sign-up some of the program’s most reluctant customers -- young people.
Healthy and new to the workforce, the “young invincibles” -- people aged 25 to 34 -- represent the highest uninsured rate of Americans, according to a survey released in November by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While coverage of people in that range has grown under Obamacare, the group has for the last five years had the highest rates of uninsurance compared to other age bands.